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Muscular Atrophy

"Muscular Atrophy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Derangement in size and number of muscle fibers occurring with aging, reduction in blood supply, or following immobilization, prolonged weightlessness, malnutrition, and particularly in denervation.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Muscular Atrophy" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Muscular Atrophy" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 255 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 21 publications in 2021
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.