Attenuation of myosin light chain phosphorylation and posttetanic potentiation in atrophied skeletal muscle

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 434, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 848-851

  Aaron Tubman, L ^a   Rassier, Dilson E ^a   MacIntosh, Brian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Rat gastrocnemius; Spinal cord; Spinal hemisection; Twitch potentiation

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; POST TETANIC POTENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; DENERVATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0031416540     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004240050474     Document Type: Article

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