Composition of newly forming motor units in prenatal rat intercostal muscle

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 196-212

  Sheard, Philip W ^a   Duxson, Marilyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Development; Motor unit; Muscle; Rat

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; FETUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOTUBE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AFFINITY LABELS; ANIMALS; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLES; LYSINE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS; RATS;

EID: 0030046582     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199602)205:2<196::AID-AJA10>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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