Typing of the muscular fibers in the costal and crural diaphragm (DIcos and DIcru) was undertaken with myosin ATPase histochemistry and the cross sectional area (CSA) of each fiber was measured with a computerized ima...Typing of the muscular fibers in the costal and crural diaphragm (DIcos and DIcru) was undertaken with myosin ATPase histochemistry and the cross sectional area (CSA) of each fiber was measured with a computerized image-processing system. It was found that the muscle fibers could be classified into types Ⅰ,ⅡA and ⅡB and they accounted for 33. 2%, 26. 9% and 39. 9% in DIcos and 25. 3%, 23. 1 % and 51. 6% in DIcru respectively. This indicated that there was difference of the proportion of each type of muscu1ar fibers between the two portions of the diaphragm. There is a higher percentage of slow-twitch oxidative fibers (type Ⅰ) in Dlcos and a higher percentage of fast-twitch glycolytic fibers (type ⅡB) in DIcru. The size of the same type of muscular fibers shows no significant difference between DIcos and DIcru.展开更多
文摘Typing of the muscular fibers in the costal and crural diaphragm (DIcos and DIcru) was undertaken with myosin ATPase histochemistry and the cross sectional area (CSA) of each fiber was measured with a computerized image-processing system. It was found that the muscle fibers could be classified into types Ⅰ,ⅡA and ⅡB and they accounted for 33. 2%, 26. 9% and 39. 9% in DIcos and 25. 3%, 23. 1 % and 51. 6% in DIcru respectively. This indicated that there was difference of the proportion of each type of muscu1ar fibers between the two portions of the diaphragm. There is a higher percentage of slow-twitch oxidative fibers (type Ⅰ) in Dlcos and a higher percentage of fast-twitch glycolytic fibers (type ⅡB) in DIcru. The size of the same type of muscular fibers shows no significant difference between DIcos and DIcru.