Ultrastructure of different types of skeletal muscle fibers of hypokinetic rats.
It has been found in the rat that prolonged hypokinesia results in degeneration or atrophy of most of the intermediate fibers, many of the red fibers and only some of the white fibers.
D000818:Animals; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D009133:Muscular Atrophy / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D009940:Organoids / Q000648:ultrastructure; D051381:Rats; D012149:Restraint, Physical / Q000009:adverse effects