Muscle Cytochrome Oxidase

uploaded on: Dec 20, 2007
by: jdmiles

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This is a cytochrome oxidase c stain of a skeletal muscle biopsy. This muscle is affected by a mitochondrial myopathy, but this slide is not diagnostic of that. I 'm using this as an example of type I and type II fibers.

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