Effects of lengthened immobilization on functional and histochemical properties of rabbit tibialis anterior muscle.

doi:10.1113/expphysiol.1992.sp003604

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Effects of lengthened immobilization on functional and histochemical properties of rabbit tibialis anterior muscle.

Experimental physiology - 1 May 1992

Pattullo M C, Cotter M A, Cameron N E, Barry J A

Abstract excerpt

The imposition of long-term lengthened immobilization on rabbit tibialis anterior (TA) muscles resulted in rapid increases in slow oxidative (SO) fibre number. After 2 weeks, SO number had increased 2-fold and was 5 times greater after 6 weeks immobilization. There were also fibre-type-specific e...

Topics

Analysis of Variance
Animals
Electromyography
Female
Glycogen
Histocytochemistry
Immobilization
Muscles
Myosins
Oxidation-Reduction
Phenotype
Rabbits
Tibia
Time Factors

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