In rats with spinal cord contusion injury, treadmill locomotor training increased the natural expression of MGF mRNA in soleus muscle.
In plain wordsIn rats with spinal cord injury, treadmill training raised the body's own MGF mRNA in muscle.
- Peptide
- MGF / PEG-MGF
- Outcome
- IncreaseMGF mRNA expression in soleus muscle
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
Spinal cord contusion injury (T8), soleus muscle- Comparator
- Untrained rats
- Outcome group
- Muscle injury and repair · Musculoskeletal
Source sentences
treadmill training triggered increases in IGF1, MGF and IGFBP4 mRNA expression
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Moderate, midthoracic (T(8)) contusion SCIs were produced using a NYU (New York University) impactor.
Animals were randomly assigned to treadmill training or untrained groups.
This result measures the body's own MGF / PEG-MGF. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.