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- noun
muscle fiber
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Examples
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"Alterations" in muscle were seen in turkeys fed ractopamine, like an increase in "mononuclear cell infiltrate and myofiber degeneration," says its 2008 new drug application documents.
Martha Rosenberg: Arsenic, Antibiotics and Asthma Drugs in Your Turkey? Martha Rosenberg 2011
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"Alterations" in muscle were seen in turkeys fed ractopamine, like an increase in "mononuclear cell infiltrate and myofiber degeneration," says its 2008 new drug application documents.
Martha Rosenberg: Arsenic, Antibiotics and Asthma Drugs in Your Turkey? Martha Rosenberg 2011
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"Alterations" in muscle were seen in turkeys fed ractopamine, like an increase in "mononuclear cell infiltrate and myofiber degeneration," says its 2008 new drug application documents.
Martha Rosenberg: Arsenic, Antibiotics and Asthma Drugs in Your Turkey? Martha Rosenberg 2011
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The most prominent findings were scattered atrophic myofibers that were mostly type one oxidative phosphorylation dependent myofibers, mild increase in lipid in selected myofibers, and occasional myofiber with reduced cytochrome c oxidase activity.
David Kirby: The Vaccine-Autism Court Document Every American Should Read 2008
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Distribution of myofiber types in thigh muscles of chickens.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Distribution of myofiber types in thigh muscles of chickens.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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(B and C) Representative cryosections of the vastus lateralis muscle from a dystrophic CKCS dog (dog 2) showing excessive variability in myofiber size and typical areas of degeneration (necrosis and phagocytosis, B) and regeneration (small fibers with prominent vesicular central nuclei, C).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gemma L. Walmsley et al. 2010
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Excessive variability in myofiber size was evident with a pattern of degeneration (multifocal groups of necrotic fibers with variable phagocytosis) and regeneration (multifocal groups of small calibre fibers with a basophilic appearance and of histochemical type 2C).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gemma L. Walmsley et al. 2010
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Now, University of Missouri researchers have used time-lapse photography to document satellite cell movements and behaviors when they interact with their 'host' myofiber.
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In addition, MOR23 is the first molecule found to influence the process of myofiber branching, a form of degeneration seen in muscular dystrophies and aging.
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