Changes in the size and synthetic activity of nuclear populations in chronically stimulated rabbit skeletal muscle.

The adaptive response of mammalian fast-twitch skeletal muscle to long-term low-frequency stimulation involves coordinated changes in the expression of a large number of genes and an increase in the synthesis of proteins and nucleic acids. Morphological correlates of these changes were sought in a qualitative and quantitative study of nuclear populations that included autoradiography at both light and electron microscopic levels. Stimulation-induced changes in biosynthetic activity were found to be supported by increases in the numbers of both non-muscle and muscle nuclei, and myonuclear counts were significantly increased in relation to sarcoplasmic volume. Moreover, the chronically stimulated muscle fibres showed ultrastructural signs consistent with mobilisation of transcriptional and translational activity.

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