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Myosin light chains in regenerating rat skeletal muscle following chronic, low-frequency, electrical stimulation
J D Rosenblatt1, W M Kuzon, M E Houston
1Department of Community Health, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
Ten days of chronic, low-frequency, electrical stimulation of regenerating rat extensor digitorum longus muscle causes an increase in the percentage of slow, phosphorylatable myosin light chains with a complementary decrease in the total fast light chain content. This altered light chain expression is similar to that observed when electrical stimulation is applied to a developing muscle in vivo.