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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1978-10-27
pubmed:abstractText
Longitudinal splitting of muscle fibres has been studied in the biopsies of eighteen patients with neurogenic disorders, and of twenty with polymyositis. In neurogenic disorders splitting predominantly affects hypertrophied fibres, and is probably due to mechanical overload induced by normal loads imposed on a weakened muscle. A similar phenomenon occurs in hypertrophied fibres in chronic polymyositis. However, in acute, or active polymyositis an appearance resembling fibre splitting can result from sequestration of necrotic segments within a fibre and also from regeneration occurring within intact sarcolemmal tubes after segmental sub-endomysial necrosis. These different processes, which can be distinguished by light and ultrastructural criteria, are important compensatory factors in neuromuscular disorders.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0305-1846
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
4
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
99-115
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Pathogenesis of longitudinal splitting of muscle fibres in neurogenic disorders and in polymyositis.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article