Oxidative enzyme activity and soma size in motoneurons innervating the rat slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscles after chronic activity

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 149-154

  Nakano, Hiroshi ^a   Masuda, Kazumi ^a   Sasaki, Shin Ya ^a   Katsuta, Shigeru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exercise; Extensor digitorum longus; Motoneuron; Soleus; Soma size; Succinate dehydrogenase

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FAST MUSCLE; FEMALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUNNING; SLOW MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 0030793222     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(96)00430-3     Document Type: Article

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