Three‐dimensional structure of cat tibialis anterior motor units

Muscle & Nerve

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 1187-1195

  Roy, Roland R ^a   Garfinkel, Alan ^a   Ounjian, Melinda ^a   Payne, Jeremy ^a   Hirahara, Alan ^a   Hsu, Emmie ^a   Edgerton, V Reggie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; cat tibialis anterior; motor unit architecture; motor unit territory; muscle fiber architecture

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; FEMALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ANIMAL; CATS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIBIA;

EID: 0029146003     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.880181015     Document Type: Article

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