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ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2016

Skeletal Muscle Loading Changes its Regenerative Capacity.

Eduardo Teixeira, José Alberto Duarte

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Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Periodization in Orthobiologics Rehabilitation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026
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  3. Traumatic muscle injury.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2023
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  6. ProteinMetabolites · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eduardo TeixeiraCentro de Investigação em Atividade Física e Saúde, Faculdade de Desporto da Universidade do Porto (CIAFEL-FADEUP), Rua Dr. Plácido Costa 91, 4200-450, Porto, Portugal. edsilvateixeira@hotmail.com.
José Alberto DuarteCentro de Investigação em Atividade Física e Saúde, Faculdade de Desporto da Universidade do Porto (CIAFEL-FADEUP), Rua Dr. Plácido Costa 91, 4200-450, Porto, Portugal.
Universidade do Porto · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whenever skeletal muscle insults occur, both by functional impositions or other injury forms, skeletal muscle repair (SMR) follows. The SMR succeeds when proper skeletal muscle regeneration and limited fibrosis ensue. Muscle fiber replenishment by fibrosis negatively affects the tissue quality and functionality and, furthermore, represents the worst post-injury phenotypic adaptation. Acute muscle injury treatment commonly follows the RICE method-rest, ice, compression, and elevation. This immediate immobilization seems to be beneficial to preserving the tissue structure and avoiding further destruction; however, if these interventions are delayed, the risk of muscle atrophy and its deleterious-related effects increase, with resultant impaired SMR. Moreover, a growing body of evidence shows positive skeletal muscle loading (SML) effects during SMR since it seems to effectively increase satellite cells (SCs) in their activation, proliferation, self-renewal, and differentiation capacities. Additionally, recent data show that SML may also influence the functions of other participants in SMR, compelling SMR to achieve less fibrotic accretion and accelerated muscle mass recovery. Moreover, given the SML effects on SCs, it is plausible to consider that these can increase the myofibers' basal myogenic potential. Thus, it seems relevant to scrutinize the possible acute and chronic SML therapeutic and prophylactic effects regarding the SMR process.

Indexed as

Cell DifferentiationCell ProliferationFibrosisHumansMuscle, SkeletalMuscular AtrophyRegenerationSatellite Cells, Skeletal MuscleWeight-Bearing

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PMID26838984
OpenAlexW2268410711

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