Perineal muscles and their innervation: Metabolic and functional significance of the motor unit

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 159, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 156-166

  Ishihara, A ^a   Hori, A ^a   Roy, R R ^c   Oishi, Y ^d   Talmadge, R J ^c,d   Ohira, Y ^b   Kobayashi, S ^a   Edgerton, V R ^c,d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulbocavernosus; Histochemistry; Immunohistochemistry; Levator ani; Rat; SDH activity; Spinal motoneuron

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FAST MUSCLE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PERINEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; MYOSINS; PERINEUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 0031462370     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: 14226421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000147979     Document Type: Article

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