Skeletal muscle
fiber hyperplasia.
Mice engineered to carry a deletion of the Mstn gene have about a doubling of skeletal muscle mass throughout the body as a result of a combination of muscle
fiber hyperplasia and hypertrophy [2].
Hence, muscle
fiber hyperplasia and hypertrophy appear to contribute roughly equally to give the overall doubling of gastrocnemius / plantaris mass in Mstn − / − mice.
Not exact matches
The double - muscling phenotype is a condition that is inheritable and results in an increased amount of muscle
fibers or
hyperplasia, as opposed to the normal process of enlargement of individual
fibers or hypertrophy.
Even though some studies have produced evidence that putting the muscle under extreme conditions might result in slight increases in the number of
fibers, a process known as
hyperplasia, the mechanism which is responsible for increasing muscle size is called hypertrophy, which is the increase in the size of the already existing muscle
fibers.
A similar effect called
hyperplasia refers to an increase in the number of cells or
fibers.
Now, when we get to the final partial flye set, the goal is
hyperplasia (
fiber splitting).
Hyperplasia is the increase of cells in number, so in the context of muscle cells, it would mean an increase of muscle
fibers.
The effect is «
hyperplasia,» which means muscle
fiber splitting (compare it to «hypertrophy,» which means muscle
fiber growth).