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Muscle atrophy refers to the wasting or loss of muscle tissue resulting from disease or lack of use.
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What two prominent muscles are affected in muscle atrophy?
Muscle atrophy can affect any muscle within the body. Atrophy is a wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use. Any muscle is subject to atrophy from either lack of use or disease. This is especially true after injury or extended bedrest. To answer your question there are no two prominent muscles that are exclusively affected in muscle atrophy.
Can Gabapentin cause muscle atrophy?
yes
Atrophy of skeletal tissue?
Possible in a zero gravity enviroment, if that's what you're asking. Along with muscle atrophy.
What occurs when a muscle becomes smaller and weaker from not being used?
shrink in size and lose strength
Muscular atrophy involves a process in which?
you don't move your muscles for days (like when you're on bedrest). your muscles shrink since they aren't used
When a muscle is not used and it grows smaller that is called?
Disuse of a muscle causes atrophy, which is a shrinking of muscle fibers leading to weakness. With use, the atrophy can be reversed.
Does atrophy of muscles cause a increase in size?
atrophy is a decrease in muscle mass. Hypertrophy is muscle growth.
What is diuse atrophy?
diuse atrophy (muscle loss or weakness from lack of use)
What two prominent muscles are affected in muscle atrophy?
Muscle atrophy can affect any muscle within the body. Atrophy is a wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use. Any muscle is subject to atrophy from either lack of use or disease. This is especially true after injury or extended bedrest. To answer your question there are no two prominent muscles that are exclusively affected in muscle atrophy.
When a muscle deceases in size?
atrophy
What is the degeneration of muscle tissue?
Atrophy
What is muscle shrinkage called?
atrophy
Why can muscle atrophy be minimized but not arrested?
as long as there is muscle in the body than atrophy can be minimized rather than arrested; as in not able to use...
Can Gabapentin cause muscle atrophy?
yes
What is it called when a muscle decreases in size due to lack of exercise?
When a muscle decreases in size due to a lack of exercise, it is called disuse atrophy.
Lack of exercise leads to muscle weakness and wasting that is known as muscle what?
atrophy
What is myofibril atrophy?
The myofibrils are cells in the muscle that provide energy to them and to atrophy is to shrink or become less, so myofibril atrophy is the shrinking or lessening or those cells within the muscle for any reason(such as lack of exercise or injury)
