Genetic regulation of slowly progressing mild muscle atrophy in fast- twitch muscles of BUF/Mna rats

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1258-1263

  Amo, Hiroyuki ^a   Saito, Mitsuhiro ^b   Nagao, Shizuko ^c   Yagiu, Shigeru ^c   Takahashi, Hisahide ^c   Morita, Hiroyuki ^b   Morita, Takako Matsuyama ^b   Matsuyama, Mutsushi ^c  

^a Aichi Women's College   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dominant trait; Mas 1; Mas 2; Mild muscle atrophy susceptible genes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; FAST MUSCLE; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; RATS; RATS, INBRED BUF; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0030770375     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199710)20:10<1258::AID-MUS8>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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