Muscle fibre
The age related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function: measurement and physiology of muscle fibre atrophy and muscle fibre loss in humans
... a muscle fibre denervated and more susceptible to atrophy and eventually ...denervated fibre in an attempt to preserve muscle mass, termed MU remodelling (Luff, 1998; Piasecki et ...excessive ...
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Optimizing force and velocity: mandible muscle fibre attachments in ants
... the muscle fibre (here referred to as the attachment angle of a muscle fibre) was determined from these ...drawings. Muscle cross-sectional area was traced from digitized microscopic ...
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Regulation of muscle fibre phenotype, muscle mass and igf-1 gene expression in skeletal muscle in response to mechanical activity
... stretch-induced muscle hypertrophy, but also regeneration (DeVol et a l, 1990; EdwaU et a l, ...in muscle fibres results in hypertrophy through one or a combination of several ...skeletal muscle that ...
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Reduction in muscle fibre number during the adaptive radiation of notothenioid fishes: a phylogenetic perspective
... of muscle fibre types on the ...fast muscle myosin, respectively, in a wide range of fish species (Devoto et ...of fibre number, sections were stained with ...1000 muscle fibres were ...
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Embryonic temperature affects muscle fibre recruitment in adult zebrafish: genome wide changes in gene and microRNA expression associated with the transition from hyperplastic to hypertrophic growth phenotypes
... production throughout the myotome (mosaic hyperplasia) (Rowlerson and Veggetti, 2001). Mosaic hyperplasia is absent in some fish species that only attain a small ultimate body length, e.g. the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) ...
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Myostatin and its precursor protein are increased in the skeletal muscle of patients with Type-II muscle fibre atrophy
... Type-II muscle fibres occurs in several clinical situations, including cachexia, muscle disuse, chronic glucocorticoid treatment, remote neoplasia, and sometimes as an aspect of ...the muscle-alanine ...
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Cellular and molecular studies of postembryonic muscle fibre recruitment in zebrafish (Danio rerio L )
... skeletal muscle function since its-knockout in mice resulted in a dystrophic phenotype and reduced muscle fibre force generation (Stiber et ...
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Fast muscle in squid (Loligo pealei): contractile properties of a specialized muscle fibre type
... two fibre types (see Figs 7, ...two muscle fibre types function in the ...transverse muscle. The force produced by the transverse muscle of the arms, however, must be precisely ...
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Distributions of nerve and muscle fibre types in locust jumping muscle
... Isometric tension developed in response to SETi by inside right column, compared with outside left column bundles, muscle distal to the Y nerve branch, at various frequencies stated, S..[r] ...
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Influence of muscle fibre composition on muscle oxygenation during maximal running
... decreased muscle oxygenation 29 accompanied by increased blood lactate concentrations; however, these studies did not involve muscle ...no muscle biopsy was performed, they hypothesised that their ...
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Muscle fibre type distribution of the thoracolumbar and hindlimb regions of horses: relating fibre type and functional role
... For the locomotory muscles, our findings were very similar to previous research in Thoroughbreds in respect to the MFT-I:II fibre type ratio [11,13]. However, in the present study we found a higher MFT-IIX ...
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Alterations in the muscle-to-capillary interface in patients with different degrees of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... each fibre (CAF) or by com- puting the ratio between CAF and the area of the muscle fibre ...in muscle capillarization. It has previously been suggested that the muscle-to-capillary ...
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Metabolic and circulatory limitations to muscular performance at the organ level
... This loss in adenine nucleotide content is dependent on the severity of the contraction conditions relative to the functional aerobic capacity of the muscle fibre, since fast-twitch red [r] ...
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The effects of acclimation to reversed seasonal temperatures on the swimming performance of adult brown trout Salmo trutta
... red muscle in fish acclimatised to 5°C in winter than in those acclimated to 15°C in summer was the result of an increase in mean fibre cross-sectional area of this ...aerobic muscle at low ...
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Ceasing of muscle function with aging: is it the consequence of intrinsic muscle degeneration or a secondary effect of neuronal impairments?
... skeletal muscle intimately depends on the central and peripheral nervous ...control muscle contraction through the well-characterised process of excitation–contraction coupling; in addition, motor neurons ...
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Muscle contractile properties as an explanation of the higher mean power output in marmosets than humans during jumping
... in muscle contractile ...(N=4), fibre-type distribution was assessed using fluorescent ...fast muscle fibres ...hybrid muscle fibres. The proportions of fast muscle fibres in marmoset ...
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Seasonal variations in the biochemical composition and ultrastructure of liver and skeletal muscles in the dab 'Limanda limanda (L )'
... the fibre to the body ...the muscle fibre trajectories form a series of helices arranged in coaxial ...and muscle fibres is thought to provide a significant mechanical advantage during flexion ...
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Regional Differentiation of Neuromuscular Synapses in a Lobster Receptor Muscle
... Muscle fibre properties of the distal head of the crab accessory flexor muscle were further characterized by Cohen 1963 a, Atwood & Dorai Raj 1964 and Dorai Raj 1964, who showed that the[r] ...
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Muscle growth and development in normal sex ratio and all female diploid and triploid Atlantic salmon
... of fibre diameter were similar ...median fibre diameter (Table 5) provides a poor index of hypertrophic growth, ...peak fibre diameter remains close to 20 µm in all age classes of Atlantic salmon ...
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Getting the jump on skeletal muscle disuse atrophy: preservation of contractile performance in aestivating Cyclorana alboguttata (Günther 1867)
... soleus muscle fibres after 21 days of immobilisation (Tomanek and Lund, 1974), the cross-sectional area of cat tibialis muscle (Nordstrom et ...and fibre number in rat soleus muscle (Booth and ...
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