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Following denervation of skeletal muscle a number of changes occur. The most obvious of these is the progressive decrease in size or atrophy ofthe muscle. This involves a decrease in dry as well as wet weight of the tissue. That increase in size of a muscle may occur following section of the motor nerve was demonstrated in this laboratory by Approximately 7 days after section of the left phrenic nerve,
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