CONNECTIVE-TISSUE CHANGES IN IMMOBILIZED MUSCLE
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 138 (MAR) , 343-350
Abstract
In muscles which had been immobilized in the shortened position there was an increase in the ratio of collagen to muscle fiber tissue. This could explain the reduced compliance of immobilized muscle. Image analysis showed that the main increase in connective tissue was in the perimysium. Scanning electron microscopy indicated that there was also an alteration in the angle the perimysial collagen fibers made with the muscle fibers. Thus the increased stiffness of immobilized muscles may result from both quantitative and qualitative connective tissue changes.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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