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muscle fibre

British

noun

any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle

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Prime among them was "a higher percentage of fast-twitch muscle fibres", which are less dependent upon oxygen.

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The team also identified specialised nuclei populations3 within the muscle fibres that help rebuild the connections between nerves and muscles that decline with age.

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More research is needed, but there are suggestions the point where women overtake comes when their greater distribution of slow-twitch muscle fibres - providing more resistance to fatigue - becomes an advantage.

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The youngster has freakish strength at scrum time because of his "fast twitch" muscle fibres which you "just don't get anymore" in tight-heads, according to Sanderson.

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He looked rusty in his first few outings and had another setback when he suffering a torn muscle fibre.

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