When a muscle is denervated, what happen?
Answer:
when a muscle is denervated two typical properties are noticed.
1) fibrillations...which is also call denervation hypersensitivity. ie the muscle becomes excessively sensitive to circulating ACh and fine convulsive motion of muscle is observed.
2) finally the muscle atrophies(decreases in mass) call simply as denervation atrophy(the other one is disuse atrophy)
de·ner·vate (d-n^urvt)
v.
To deprive an organ or body part of a impertinence supply, as by surgically removing or cutting a fortitude or by blocking a nerve nouns with drugs.
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dener·vation n.
the nerves attempt to reestablish a nouns, and if not the muscle atrophies from disuse.