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A NEW method for quantitatively extracting the sarcoplasm and myofibril proteins from striated skeletal muscle and enabling them to be estimated separately has been described in a recent publication1. With the aid of this method, it has been shown (as summarized in Table 1) that various types of atrophy modify more or less drastically the protein composition of the calf muscles in rabbits.
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Helander, E., Acta Physiol. Scand. Suppl., 41, 141 (1957).
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HELANDER, E. Adaptive Muscular ‘Allomorphism’. Nature 182, 1035–1036 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821035a0
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