Re:Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma
by kurtisc on Monday February 18, 2019 @08:23AM
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Adding fibres. i.e. adding cells is hyperplasia and it's currently unknown if this occurs naturally in adult humans. Most visible growth can be attributed to hypertrophy, where the cells grow bigger.
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Re:Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma
by wcarron on Monday February 18, 2019 @02:46PM
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My apologies. I was referring to "myofibrils" which are the strands within a muscle cell. So I meant to say that hypertrophy is the mechanism of growth. But you are correct, these are simply parts of a single cell and I mistakenly used hyperplasia.