Skeletal muscle buffering capacity is higher in the superficial vastus than in the soleus of spontaneously running rats

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 211-216

  Weston, A R ^a,b   Wilson, G R ^a   Noakes, T D ^a   Myburgh, K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Buffering; Enzymes; Exercise; Fibre type; Muscle; Rat

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXERCISE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUNNING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

EID: 0030000260     PISSN: 00016772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201X.1996.488225000.x     Document Type: Article

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