Muscle Decline in Aging and Neuromuscular Disorders - Mechanisms and Countermeasures: Terme Euganee, Padova (Italy), April 13-16, 2016.

Of note is the fact, that in the 7-day denervated left emi-diaphragm of the oldest rats (30-month) slow-type muscle fiber present a 5.7% highly significantly increase in fiber size, and that in two out of the four rats total muscle fiber size analyzed in semi-thin section after fixation for electron microscopy present highly significant increase (+ 14.5 %) when compared with the contralateral innervated emi-diaphragm.

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