Effects of spaceflight on enzyme activities and ultrastructure of fast-type skeletal muscles of rats

Japanese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 471-476

  Yoshioka, Toshitada ^a   Yamashita Goto, Katsumasa ^a   Tanaka, Osamu ^a   Uchida, Hiroshi ^a   Kimura, Midori ^a   Fujita, Kazuhiko ^a   Sekiguchi, Chiharu ^b   Nagaoka, Syunji ^b  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b National Space Agency of Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enzyme activity; Spaceflown rat; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FAST MUSCLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; RAT; SARCOLEMMA; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPACE FLIGHT;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-58 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ANIMALS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE-1; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SPACE FLIGHT; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 0031474282     PISSN: 0021521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.47.471     Document Type: Article

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