An inability to distinguish edematous swelling from true hypertrophy still prevents a completely accurate interpretation of the time course of muscle hypertrophy.

What it found

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Who cites it

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7. Causal Mediation Analysis Could Resolve Whether Training-Induced Increases in Muscle Strength are Mediated by Muscle Hypertrophy.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2019
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8. The development of skeletal muscle hypertrophy through resistance training: the role of muscle damage and muscle protein synthesis.European journal of applied physiology · 2018
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11. Differentiating swelling and hypertrophy through indirect assessment of muscle damage in untrained men following repeated bouts of resistance exercise.European journal of applied physiology · 2017
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12. Resistance training-induced changes in integrated myofibrillar protein synthesis are related to hypertrophy only after attenuation of muscle damage.The Journal of physiology · 2016
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  An examination of the time course of training-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy.2011
• Comment on
  Early resistance training-induced increases in muscle cross-sectional area are concomitant with edema-induced muscle swelling.2016
• Comment on
  The findings of Damas et al. have not influenced the previously proposed time course of skeletal muscle hypertrophy.2016

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