Effects of muscle length on the response to unloading

Acta Anatomica

Volumn 159, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 90-98

  Ohira, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FITNESS AND SPORTS IN KANOYA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glycerophosphate dehydrogenase activity; Fiber size; Immobilization; Muscle length changes; Myofibrillar ATPase activity; Succinate dehydrogenase activity; Unloading

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FAST MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE METABOLISM; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RAT; SLOW MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; GLYCEROLPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HINDLIMB; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLES; MYOFIBRILS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0031448118     PISSN: 00015180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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