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- Title
Effect of altered innervation and thyroid hormones on myosin heavy chain expression and fiber type transitions: a mini-review.
- Authors
Soukup, Tomáš; Smerdu, Vika
- Abstract
In this mini-review, we briefly present the data regarding the effect of extrinsic factors, i.e., innervation and thyroid hormones (TH) on myosin heavy chain genes and isoforms expression and consequently on muscle fiber type transitions. It has been well known that reduced neuromuscular activity, hyperthyroidism or mechanical unloading stimulate slow-to-fast fiber type transitions, while increased neuromuscular activity, hypothyroidism and higher mechanical loading result in fast to slow fiber type transitions. As there is a plethora of results on these topics, we focus mostly on data relevant to our experimental model of slow-to-fast muscle transformation following heterochronous intramuscular isotransplantation in rats with altered TH status.
- Subjects
INNERVATION; THYROID hormones; MYOSIN; GENE expression; MUSCLE transplants
- Publication
Histochemistry & Cell Biology, 2015, Vol 143, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
0948-6143
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00418-014-1276-0