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Muscle specific structural differences in piscine muscle glycogens

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Piscine red muscles are rich in glycogen content. Structurally white muscle glycogens have one glucosidal unit more in their external branches than the red muscles.

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  1. R. V. Krishnamoorthy

    Present address: Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, 39564, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Agril. Sciences, GKVK Campus, 560065, Bangalore North, (India)

    R. V. Krishnamoorthy & B. Jamila Begum

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The author wishes to thank the CSIR, New Delhi for the award of a Junior Research Fellowship.

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Krishnamoorthy, R.V., Begum, B.J. Muscle specific structural differences in piscine muscle glycogens. Experientia 34, 832–833 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01939647

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