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Ultrastructural evidence for disuse atrophy in insect skeletal muscle
Cell and Tissue Research
|January 1, 1979
Abstract:
The changes which occur in the ultrastruct of the mesothoracic retractor unguis muscle of the cockroach Periplaneta americana as a result of disuse are described. Breakdown of myofibrils, sarcoplasmic reticulum, and mitochondria are all marked, this degeneration only being apparent 9 weeks after the operation.