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Effects of increased occlusal vertical dimension on daily activity and myosin heavy chain composition in rat jaw muscle.
Archives of oral biology - 1 Aug 2009
Ohnuki Yoshiki, Kawai Nobuhiko, Tanaka Eiji, Langenbach Geerling E J, Tanne Kazuo, Saeki Yasutake
Abstract excerpt
Mammalian skeletal muscles change their contractile-protein phenotype in response to mechanical loading and/or chronic electrical stimulation, implying that the phenotypic changes in masticatory muscles might result from new masticatory-loading conditions. To analyze the effects of increased occlusal vertical dimension (OVD) on daily activities and fibre-type compositions in jaw muscles, we measured the total...
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