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Effect of unilateral damage to sciatic nerve on phenotype of lumbrical muscles in experimental and contralateral legs in rats.
Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine - 1 May 2005
Islamov R R, Valiullin V V
Abstract excerpt
Expression of slow myosin in fast lumbrical muscle during unilateral damage to the sciatic nerve was studied in rats. Four weeks after unilateral excision of sciatic nerve segment or its crushing, the content of slow fiber in the lumbrical muscle of the contralateral leg tended to increase (detected using monoclonal antibodies against slow myosin). The extrapyramidal system seems to modulate the phenotype of...
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