Partial transformation from fast to slow muscle fibers induced by deafferentation of capsaicin-sensitive muscle afferents

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1404-1413

  Brunetti, Orazio ^a   Barazzoni, Anna M ^b   Torre, Giovannella Della ^a   Clavenzani, Paolo ^b   Pettorossi, Vito E ^a   Bortolami, Ruggero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capsaicin; Group III and IV muscle afferents; Muscle fiber trophism; Neurokinins

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NEUROKININ; TETRAZOLIUM REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; DENERVATION; HINDLIMB; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0030841440     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199711)20:11<1404::AID-MUS8>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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