Effects of passive exercise on neurogenic atrophy in rat skeletal muscle.
Passive exercise treatment for 23 days produced a retardation of type II muscle fiber atrophy in denervated extensor digitorum longus muscle of rat compared with denervated-nontreated animals. The type I muscle fibers of both denervated groups were similar to that of control rats.
D000818:Animals; D001284:Atrophy; D005260:Female; D009121:Muscle Denervation; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology*; D005082:Physical Exertion; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains