At week 12 post operation, results showed that compound action potential amplitude in
gastrocnemius muscle was reduced in axotomy group compared with that in control.
After eight weeks, control and exercise groups were euthanized using isoflurane, then
gastrocnemius and soleus muscles were removed, snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen, and stored in -80[degrees]C until used.
In Group 1, electrical stimulation was applied to the
gastrocnemius muscle.
Representative histological sections of
gastrocnemius muscle (A) and peritoneal adipose tissue (B) of Swiss mice of groups SS: sedentary treated with saline; SI: sedentary treated with insulin; TS: trained treated with saline; and TI: trained treated with insulin.
The isolated
gastrocnemius muscle was then attached to the femur clamp with the Achilles' tendon attached to a muscle force transducer.
Generally, the number of sizeable perforators ranges from one to four, with a mean of two.[5] In a study by Wong et al.,[17] an average of 4.4 perforators was found to pierce the medial
gastrocnemius muscle in each lower limb.
The prosthesis employs a quasi-passive clutched-spring knee orthosis, approximating the largely isometric behavior of the biological
gastrocnemius. Two participants with unilateral transtibial amputation walk with the prosthesis on an instrumented treadmill while motion, force, electromyography, and metabolic data are collected and analyzed.
Consequently, lower limb MRI revealed that the patient had active myositis of his
gastrocnemius muscles.
We also evaluated the modified Ashworth scale (mAs) of the
gastrocnemius muscle [19] and the International Standards for Neurological and Functional Classification of Spinal Cord Injury (ISNCSCI) motor scores motor score as a measure of lower limb motor function.
The
gastrocnemius and soleus were semiautomatically segmented and analyzed individually.