Fractal analysis of cytoskeleton rearrangement in cardiac muscle during head-down tilt

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1522-1527

  Thomason, Donald B ^a   Anderson III, Otis ^a   Menon, Vandana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

actin filaments; colchicine; complexity; microtubules; myocyte; volume load

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEAD POSITION; HEAD TILTING; HEART MUSCLE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029821794     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1996.81.4.1522     Document Type: Article

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