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Free mobilization and low- to high-intensity exercise in immobilization-induced muscle atrophy.

J Appl Physiol (1985)

April 1998

Accident and Trauma Research Center and Research Center of Sports Medicine, The President Urho Kekkonen Institute for Health Promotion Research, FIN-33500 Tampere, Finland.

After 3 wk of immobilization, the effects of free cage activity and low- and high-intensity treadmill running (8 wk) on the morphology and histochemistry of the soleus and gastrocnemius muscles in male Sprague-Dawley rats were investigated. In both muscles, immobilization produced a significant (P < 0.001) increase in the mean percent area of intramuscular connective tissue (soleus: 18.

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