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Assessing Functional Recovery of Eupneic Diaphragm Activity Following Unilateral Cervical Spinal Cord Hemisection in Rats
Published on: June 14, 2024
Krzysztof E Kowalski1, Jaroslaw R Romaniuk, Anthony F DiMarco
1Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve Univ., MetroHealth Medical Center, Rammelkamp Center for Education & Research, 2500 MetroHealth Dr., Cleveland, OH 44109-1998. afd3@cwru.edu).
Spinal cord injury causes significant disuse atrophy in expiratory muscles, leading to reduced airway pressure-generating capacity. This study in cats shows muscle mass loss and fiber type changes after spinalization.
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