Sentence examples for predominantly slow from inspiring English sources

The CXMDJ diaphragm showed marked changes in fiber type composition unlike TC muscles, suggesting that the affected diaphragm may be effectively adapted toward dystrophic stress by switching to predominantly slow fibers.

The muscles of the forearm are predominantly "slow twitch".

These data also indicate that predominantly slow muscles are more responsive to unloading than predominantly fast muscles.

The seven movements of Quartet No 7, each of them predominantly slow, last almost 55 minutes, while the single-movement eighth, dedicated to the Queen on her 80th birthday last year, is barely a third as long.

In addition, muscle atrophy can affect specific fiber types, involving predominantly slow type 1 or fast type 2 muscle fibers, and is frequently accompanied by a slow-to-fast or fast-to-slow fiber type shift.

Families present in the reference streams, but not in the biocanal, were predominantly slow colonizers or taxa linked to riparian vegetation, which was scarce and in an early successional stage along the biocanal.

HFLTA states that the the best way to remember the difference between muscles with predominantly slow-twitch fibers and muscles with predominantly fast-twitch fibers is to think of "white meat" and "dark meat".

These data show that overexpression of PV, resulting in decreased calcineurin activity, can alter the functional and metabolic profile of muscle and influence the expression of key marker genes in a predominantly slow-twitch muscle with minimal effects on the expression of muscle contractile proteins.

The music is predominantly slow-moving and quiet.

Neuromuscular pathology was found to be more pronounced in the predominantly slow-twitch transversus abdominis muscle as well as the caudal band of the fast-twitch levator auris longus in these mice (Murray et al., 2008; Ruiz et al., 2010), suggesting differential vulnerability of NMJs, which has also been observed between the diaphragm and soleus (Voigt et al., 2010).

Derave et al. (2007) provided 4.8 g day−1 for 4 5 weeks in track and field athletes and reported a 47%% increase in the carnosine content of the soleus muscle, a predominantly slow-twitch muscle, but only a 37%% increase in the gastrocnemius, a predominantly fast-twitch muscle.