Old age does not affect shortening velocity or content of contractile and cytoskeletal proteins in the rat detrusor smooth muscle

Urological Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-70

  Sjuve, R ^b   Uvelius, B ^a   Arner, A ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Dept of Physiology and Neuroscience ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

actin; age; bladder smooth muscle; force velocity relation; intermediate filaments; myosin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN;

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

ACTINS; AGING; ANIMALS; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOSINS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0030892026     PISSN: 03005623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00941909     Document Type: Article

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