Patterns of Muscle Fiber-Type Disproportion in Hypotonic Infants
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology
- Vol. 41 (1) , 53-57
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1984.04050130059023
Abstract
• We studied the histochemical characteristics of muscle in five hypotonic infants. A number of different patterns of disproportion in the sizes and numbers of type 1 and type 2 fibers were found. In three cases, type 1 fibers were smaller than type 2 fibers and type 2b or 2c fibers were largest. In one case, type 2 fibers were smaller than type 1 fibers and were reduced in number, while in a case of Prader-Willi syndrome there was a pre-ponderance of type 2 fibers that were smaller than type 1 fibers. Type 2c fibers were increased in number in all but one case. We postulate that these various patterns of fiber-type disproportion are the result of altered neural influences leading to impaired maturation of type 1 or type 2 motor units.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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