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Glycogen phosphorylase, glycogen alpha-4 UDP-glucosyl transferase, glycogen, and some enzymes were histochemically examined in rat skeletal muscles. Phosphorylase activity was abundantly demonstrated not only in large fibers of the white muscle, but also in small red fibers of soleus muscle and those in the deep fascicles of gastrocunemius and quadriceps femoris muscles. Small fibers with high phosphorylase activity did not always revealed high LDH activity.
Native glycogen was abundant mostly in small fibers or in middlesized fibers. Neither glycogen synthetase, nor glycogenolytic enzyme activity was directly proportionate to native glycogen content.
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Nishiyama, T., Miyayama, H. Variation of phosphorylase distribution in skeletal muscles. Histochemie 33, 31–37 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00304223
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