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Abstract
Derangement in size and number of muscle fibers occurring with aging, reduction in blood supply, or following immobilization, prolonged weightlessness, malnutrition, and particularly in denervation.
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- Atrophy, Muscle
- Atrophies, Muscle
- Atrophies, Muscular
- Atrophy, Muscular
- Muscle Atrophies
- Muscle Atrophy
- Muscular Atrophies
- Neurogenic Muscular Atrophy
- Neurotrophic Muscular Atrophy
- Atrophies, Neurogenic Muscular
- Atrophies, Neurotrophic Muscular
- Atrophy, Neurogenic Muscular
- Atrophy, Neurotrophic Muscular
- Muscular Atrophies, Neurogenic
- Muscular Atrophies, Neurotrophic
- Muscular Atrophy, Neurogenic
- Muscular Atrophy, Neurotrophic
- Neurogenic Muscular Atrophies
- Neurotrophic Muscular Atrophies
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL is also available
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Muscular Atrophy. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009133. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009133
- Muscular Atrophy. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyotrophy
- Muscular Atrophy. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2844600