“…In the present study, we found that the number of PCNA and BrdU-positive satellite cells in the atrophied GCM muscle had a significant increase after low-intensity MT compared to high-intensity MT. Although the parameters of MT (8 Hz, 25 μA, 5,000 μA) used in this study were different from those used the in the previous studies, our findings are in agreement with those of earlier studies, in which the electrical stimulation (2–20 Hz, 0.5–20 mA) yielded an effective stimulus to rescue the loss of satellite cells in disused muscle atrophy in mice [29] , and a similar effect was found on muscle satellite cells with other electrical stimulation parameters (0.3 Hz and 10 μA) [16] . In particular, the mitotic activity of satellite cells (myogenic precursor cells) was the first observable phenomenon after the 2-week immobilisation followed by 4 weeks of remobilisation and coincided with the recovery of muscle fibres [19,27] .…”