title: [Muscle reinnervation in rats treated with vitamin E].
abstract: During muscle reinnervation, a transitory phase of polyinnervation occurs. In reinnervated muscles of vitamin E deficient rats, sprouting and polyinnervation are increased with respect to reinnervated controls. In this work, polyinnervation was observed in reinnervated extensor digitorum longus (edl) muscle of rats treated with pharmacological doses of vitamin E. Sciatic nerve was crushed and edl muscle was examined electrophysiologically at 30, 40 and 60 days after denervation. The percentage of polyinnervated cells in controls peaked at 30 days and thus it decreased. In muscles of vitamin E treated rats, the time course of percentage of polyinnervated muscle cells was qualitatively the same, but it was decreased at all times.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Anatomia e Fisiologia Generale, Università di Urbino.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sartini
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cuppini
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cuppini
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bruno
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000294:innervation*; D009409:Nerve Crush; D009416:Nerve Regeneration / Q000187:drug effects*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000187:drug effects; D014810:Vitamin E / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D014810:Vitamin E
vernacular_title: La reinnervazione del muscolo nel ratto trattato con vitamina E.