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TWITCH MUSCLE

Striated muscle innervated by a single motoneuron and having an electrically excitable membrane that exhibits an all or none response (c.f. Tonic muscle): in mammals nearly all skeletal muscles are twitch muscles. Physiologists often divide muscles into quick and slow twitch types, the quick twitch muscles being associated with quick engine units. This entry appears with alow from the Vocabulary of Cell and Molecular Biology
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