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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
neuroscience
Effect of stretch combined with electrical stimulation on the type of sarcomeres produced at the ends of muscle fibers
Experimental Neurology, Volume 93, No. 3, Year 1986
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Stretching a muscle results in a rapid addition of sarcomeres at the ends of the muscle fibers. The effect of a pattern of electrical stimulation resembling that of a slow motoneuron on the newly formed muscle tissue in a stretched, fast-contracting muscle was investigated. We found that after a period as short as 4 days, the type of sarcomeres which were added on to the ends of the existing myofibrils differed from those in the middle regions of the experimental muscles: there was a much higher proportion of type I and type IIA sarcomeres in the stretch-stimulated ends. This study showed that reprogramming of the synthesis of fiber type-specific contractile proteins can be achieved and detected within a very short time by using electrical stimulation combined with stretch. © 1986.
Authors & Co-Authors
Williams, Pamela
United Kingdom, Hull
University of Hull
Czech Republic, Prague
Institutu Klinické a Experimentální Medicíny
Kuwait
University Medical School
United States, Grafton
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Watt, Peter
United Kingdom, Hull
University of Hull
Czech Republic, Prague
Institutu Klinické a Experimentální Medicíny
Kuwait
University Medical School
United States, Grafton
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Bicik, V.
United Kingdom, Hull
University of Hull
Czech Republic, Prague
Institutu Klinické a Experimentální Medicíny
Kuwait
University Medical School
United States, Grafton
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Goldspink, Geoffrey
United Kingdom, Hull
University of Hull
Czech Republic, Prague
Institutu Klinické a Experimentální Medicíny
Kuwait
University Medical School
United States, Grafton
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Statistics
Citations: 81
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/0014-4886(86)90170-6
ISSN:
00144886