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The effects of thyroid status on some properties of rat fast-twitch muscle

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The effects of different thyroid states on some histochemical and biochemical properties of fast-twitch muscle were studied using rat extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle. This muscle was found to be much less responsive to thyroidal influence than the slow-twitch soleus muscle. In EDL muscles of hypothyroid rats, fast → slow conversions were observed in fibre type composition, myosin ATPase activity and light chain pattern, and in the subunit composition of lactate dehydrogenase, while the only significant slow → fast conversion observed in thyrotoxicosis was a decrease in the proportion of slow-oxidative fibres. Denervation of the hypothyroid muscle produced the highest degree of fast → slow transformation. These findings support the view that denervation and dysthyreosis alter gene expression in muscle by independent mechanisms.

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Nwoye, L., Mommaerts, W.F.H.M. The effects of thyroid status on some properties of rat fast-twitch muscle. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2, 307–320 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00713269

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