Adaptation of rat gastrocnemius muscles to 2 weeks of centrifugation: Myofibers and extracellular matrix

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 6 SUPPL., 1998, Pages

  Stauber, William T ^a,b   Miller, G Roger ^a   Grimmett, Juanita G ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GRAVITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CENTRIFUGATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HYPERGRAVITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MYOFIBRILS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; SPACE FLIGHT; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031779383     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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