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Skeletal Muscle Adaptation in Response to Chronic Stimulation

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Chronic stimulation has become an attractive model for studying activity-induced adaptations and for investigating the role of impulse activity upon phenotype expression in skeletal muscle (for reviews see Jolesz and Sréter 1981; Pette 1984; Pette and Vrbová 1985; Salmons and Henriksson 1981).

This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Sonderforschungsbereich 138 “Biologische Grenzflächen und Spezifität” and Sonderforschungsbereich 156 “Mechanismen zellulärer Kommunikation”

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Pette, D. (1986). Skeletal Muscle Adaptation in Response to Chronic Stimulation. In: Nix, W.A., Vrbová, G. (eds) Electrical Stimulation and Neuromuscular Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71337-8_2

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