Feline caudefemoralis muscle: Muscle fibre properties, architecture, and motor innervation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 76-91

  Brown, Ian E ^a   Satoda, Takahiro ^a,b   Richmond, Frances J R ^a   Loeb, Gerald E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cat; Caudofemoralis; EMG; Motor nucleus; Muscle architecture; Muscle fiber

Indexed keywords

FAST BLUE; FLUOROGOLD; GLYCOGEN; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE;

ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING; ANIMAL; CELL SIZE; CYTOCHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENZYMOLOGY; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; HIP; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; NERVE ENDING; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; CATS; CELL SIZE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 0031596236     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050439     Document Type: Article

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