Stretching mice's leg muscles didn't change the number of muscle repair cells, suggesting their muscles still grew without using more of these cells.

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Efficacy of passive repetitive stretching of skeletal muscle on myofiber hypertrophy and genetic suppression on MAFbx, MuRF1, and myostatin

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2021 Dec

The study stretched mice muscles and found they got bigger without increasing the number of muscle repair cells, which supports the idea that muscles can grow even if those cells don’t change.

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Efficacy of passive repetitive stretching of skeletal muscle on myofiber hypertrophy and genetic suppression on MAFbx, MuRF1, and myostatin

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DOI: 10.1007/s10974-021-09609-7

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