Dear Margaret,

I recommend you to look at the following paper:
Rowlerson (1994). An outline of fibre types in vertebrate skeletal muscle:
histochemical identification and myosin isoforms. Basic and Applied Myology
4 (4): 333-352.

Hope this can help you.

Best wishes
Tora


At 08:09 6.1.00 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi All and Happy New Year!
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>I just wanted to post a question to the histoland regarding muscle fiber
typing
>technique.  I know that there are antibodies out there and people do IHC on
>muscle to determine fiber type.  I also know that there are enzyme stains to
>determine fiber types.  Can anyone give me a run down on the pros and cons of
>each method?
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>Thanks a lot,
>Margaret
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