Extensor Digitorum Longus
Impact of maternal protein restriction on muscle fiber and neuromuscular junction morphology of extensor digitorum longus muscle in 21 day old rat offspring
... The fetal period is essential for the development of muscle fibers and neuromuscular junctions (NMJs). This study evaluated the effects of maternal protein restriction during pregnancy and lactation on muscle fibers and ...
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Recombinant Uncarboxylated Osteocalcin Per Se Enhances Mouse Skeletal Muscle Glucose Uptake in both Extensor Digitorum Longus and Soleus Muscles
... myotubes, and to a lesser extent in ex vivo soleus muscle which mainly relies on oxidative metabolism for energy production, but not in ex vivo extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle, which largely ...
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Morphological changes of extensor digitorum longus muscle in the offspring of obese rats
... Objective: To evaluate the morphology and morphometry of muscle fibers and neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) of the extensor digitorum longus muscle (EDL) in the offspring of obese ratsinduced by a ...
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The Effects of Six Weeks Endurance Training on Soleus and Extensor Digitorum Longus Myonuclear Number in Diabetic Male Wistar Rats
... as extensor digitorum longus (EDL) is oval and aligned with the longitudinal axis of the fiber, while in the slow-twitch muscles such as soleous nucleus have a rounded shape ...
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Non myotendinous force transmission in rat extensor digitorum longus muscle
... Possible extramuscular paths of force transmission If a substantial proportion of in vivo muscle force is transmitted laterally to the fascial apparatus of muscle, is this force transfer limited to intramuscular ...
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Regional variation in the mechanical properties and fibre‐type composition of the rat extensor digitorum longus muscle
... limb extensor muscle tendons were exposed, released by transecting the retinaculum ligament in the ankle, allowing the tibialis anterior muscle to be reflected, exposing the ...
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Pathological classification of equine recurrent laryngeal neuropathy
... Abbreviations: RLN, recurrent laryngeal neuropathy; CMT, Charcot-Marie- Tooth disease; RLn, recurrent laryngeal nerve; EM, electron microscopy; EDL, extensor digitorum longus muscle; PMP[r] ...
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Mast cells and neutrophils mediate peripheral motor pathway degeneration in ALS
... Mast cells and neutrophils were also abundant around motor axons in the extensor digitorum longus muscle, sciatic nerve, and ventral roots of symptomatic SOD1 G93A rats, indicating that[r] ...
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Skinned fibres produce the same power and force as intact fibre bundles from muscle of wild rabbits
... Other comparisons of intact and skinned fibre performance can be made on the basis of literature values. A maximum power of 166±8.9 W l −1 (mean±s.e.m.) at 30°C has been reported for Type 2 skinned fibres from the rat ...
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Etruscan shrew muscle: the consequences of being small
... the extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles are typical representatives of slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscles, so they were chosen to be functionally and structurally investigated in the ...
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Contraction parameters, myosin composition and metabolic enzymes of the skeletal muscles of the etruscan shrew Suncus etruscus and of the common European white toothed shrew Crocidura russula (Insectivora: soricidae)
... of extensor digitorum longus (EDL) and soleus muscles are shorter than in any other mammal, allowing these muscles to contract at outstandingly high contraction ...
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Approaches to Proximal Tibial Bone Harvest Techniques
... (+/- extensor digitorum longus) muscle will cover the harvest site defect, which may increase healing and decrease morbidity in diabetic or compromised ...
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Myosin phosphorylation potentiates steady state work output without altering contractile economy of mouse fast skeletal muscles
... contractile proteins (Godt and Nosek, 1989; Persechini et al., 1985). These outcomes may account for why stimulation-induced elevations in RLC phosphorylation are so strongly associated with isometric twitch force ...
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CCAAT/enhancer binding protein β is required for satellite cell self-renewal
... EDL: Extensor digitorum longus; eMyHC: Embryonic myosin heavy chain; GM: Growth media; IHC: Immunohistochemistry; mRNA: Messenger ribonucleic acid; MyHC: Myosin heavy chain; MyoD: Myogenic ...
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Sarcomere length measurement permits high resolution normalization of muscle fiber length in architectural studies
... The use of sarcomere length to normalize fiber length in architectural studies is commonly practiced but has not been explicitly validated. Using mouse hindlimb muscles as a model system, ankle joints were intentionally ...
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The role of mast cells and fibre type in ischaemia reperfusion injury of murine skeletal muscles
... Methods: In this study we compared susceptibility of the fast-twitch, extensor digitorum longus (EDL), mixed fast/slow-twitch gastrocnemius and the predominately slow-twitch soleus, mus[r] ...
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β-Hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMβ) supplementation stimulates skeletal muscle hypertrophy in rats via the mTOR pathway
... the extensor digitorum longus (EDL) and soleus muscles and increased serum insulin levels, the expression of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and phosphorylation of p70S6K in the EDL ...
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Muscle lipogenesis balances insulin sensitivity and strength through calcium signaling
... As with intact animals, there was no effect of FAS inactivation in the chow condition, but soleus and extensor digitorum longus EDL muscles isolated from FASKOS mice were partially prote[r] ...
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Effect of aging on the relationship between capillary supply and muscle fiber size
... [26] investigated changes in the number of capillaries with age in the soleus muscle mostly occupied by slow-twitch fibers and the extensor digitorum longus muscle mostly fast-twitch fib[r] ...
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Variations in the insertion of the extensor hallucis longus muscle
... the extensor hallucis longus seen arising from separate fleshy bellies, while the mus- cle was unipennate in the remaining ...the extensor hallucis longus muscle described in the present study ...
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