Age-related changes in muscle calcium content in dystrophin-deficient mdx mice

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 357-360

  Reeve, Joanne L ^a   McArdle, Anne ^a   Jackson, Malcolm J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dystrophy; mdx mouse; mitochondria; skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; DYSTROPHIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; DYSTROPHIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED MDX; MUSCLES; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031026961     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199703)20:3<357::AID-MUS14>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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