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myofiber

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myofiber /myo·fi·ber/ (-fi´ber) muscle fiber.
myofiber
muscle fiber.
myofiber hyperplasia
an inherited marked increase in the number of fibers in the muscle masses of affected cattle. There is a corresponding diminution in the amount of fat and connective tissue in the carcass. There is no deleterious effect on the animals except a higher prevalence of dystocia, and some other minor musculoskeletal defects, including elso-heel. Called also culard, doppellender, doppellendigkeit, double muscle.
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Myofiber damage leads to the release of nitric oxide, which mediates the release of active hepatocyte growth factor from the heparin sulfate chains on the extracellular matrix and surrounding myofibers (Hawke, 2005).
Effects of voluntary wheel running on satellite cells in the rat ... by Kurosaka, Mitsutoshi; Naito, Hisashi; Ogura, Yuji; Kojima, Atsushi; Goto, Katsumasa; Katamoto, Shizu / Journal of Sports Science and Medicine
20E stimulates the fiber growth in the regenerating soleus The soleus muscle consisted of entirely new myofibers after 5 days of notexin treatment, later 98% of them expressed slow myosin (Whalen et al.
20-Hydroxyecdysone increases fiber size in a muscle-specific fashion ... by Toth, Noemi; Szabo, Andras; Kacsala, Peter; Heger, Julia; Zador, Erno / Phytomedicine: International Journal of Phytotherapy & Phytopharmacology
TNF-[alpha] may contribute to atrophy through a number of mechanisms, including inhibition of protein synthesis and reduced expression of MyoD, a transcriptional regulator of myofiber gene expression and accelerated protein breakdown through activation of ubiquitin proteases and NF-[kappa]B and apoptotic cell death [47-52].
Skeletal muscle changes after hemiparetic stroke and potential ... by Hafer-Macko, Charlene E.; Ryan, Alice S.; Ivey, Frederick M.; Macko, Richard F. /  
 
 
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