Inhibition of Ca2+ release in rat atrophied gastrocnemius muscle

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 665-676

  Kassier, Dilson E ^a   Tubman, L Aaron ^a   MacIntosh, Brian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; DANTROLENE; TETRODOTOXIN; CALCIUM; CENTRAL MUSCLE RELAXANT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; RAT; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; DANTROLENE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXANTS, CENTRAL; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; TETRODOTOXIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030610999     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.1997.sp004055     Document Type: Article

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