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Muscular Atrophy

"Muscular Atrophy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Muscular Atrophy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Muscular Atrophy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 31 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2012
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