CrossTalk opposing view: The diaphragm muscle does not atrophy as a result of inactivity.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Unaffected contractility of diaphragm muscle fibers in humans on mechanical ventilation.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2014
   Trial
2. Antioxidant Upregulation Contributes to Improvements in Diaphragm Function Following Cervical Spinal Cord Injury and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
   Article
3. Cholesterol-Lowering Treatment Suppresses Neuromuscular Transmission Via Presynaptic Mechanism at the Mouse Diaphragm Muscle.Neurochemical research · 2025
   Article
4. Evolution and Functional Differentiation of the Diaphragm Muscle of Mammals.Comprehensive physiology · 2019
   Review
5. Critical illness-associated diaphragm weakness.Intensive care medicine · 2017
   Review
6. Targeting Heat Shock Proteins Mitigates Ventilator Induced Diaphragm Muscle Dysfunction in an Age-Dependent Manner.Frontiers in physiology · 2016
   Article
7. Rebuttal from Gary C. Sieck and Carlos B. Mantilla.The Journal of physiology · 2013
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Rebuttal from Scott K. Powers, Ashley J. Smuder, David Fuller and Sanford Levine.2013

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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