... to in the content or advertisements. Tongue Muscle Human Myosin heavy chain Fibre types Capillaries The tongue is a mobile highly organized muscular organ containing three intrinsic muscles, the longitudinalis, the transversus and the verticalis, crossing into each other, often as sheets...

... differences in proportion and diameter of fibre types were obvious. The anterior region of the tongue contained a predominance of relatively small type II fibres (71%), in contrast to the posterior region which instead showed a majority of larger type I and type IM/IIC fibres (66%). In general, the fibre...