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Change in Enzyme Pattern after Cross-innervation of Fast and Slow Skeletal Muscle

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Buller, Eccles and Eccles1 showed that cross-union of the nerves to the fast flexor digitorum longus and the slow soleus muscles in the cat altered the speed of contraction of these muscles. This implied that the mechanical properties of fast and slow muscle were dependent on the appropriate innervation, and they postulated a possible chemical control from the central nervous system by way of the peripheral nerve.

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DUBOWITZ, V., NEWMAN, D. Change in Enzyme Pattern after Cross-innervation of Fast and Slow Skeletal Muscle. Nature 214, 840–841 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214840a0

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