Population
Rats (soleus muscle)
Comparison
14 days of hindlimb suspension, 14 days of… vs Control (untreated) rats
Design
Preclinical
Follow-up
14 days
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for MLC2 in rodent muscle plasticity; leaves open translation to human cardiac or skeletal disease.
In rat skeletal muscles, an increase of MLC2 phosphorylation is associated with the slow-to-fast transition regardless of whether hypertrophy or atrophy develops.
Bozzo et al. (2003) studied this question.
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