skeletal muscle hypertrophy

id: GO:0014734
name: skeletal muscle hypertrophy
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The enlargement or overgrowth of all or part of an organ due to an increase in size (not length) of individual muscle fibers without cell division. In the case of skeletal muscle cells this happens due to the additional synthesis of sarcomeric proteins and assembly of myofibrils.

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