Task-specific design of skeletal muscle: balancing muscle structural composition

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-40

  Lindstedt, Stan L ^a   McGlothlin, Travis ^a   Percy, Eric ^a   Pifer, Judah ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchronous muscle; Hummingbird; Insects; Mitochondria; Muscle structure; Myofibrils; Rattlesnake; Sarcoplasmic reticulum; Symmorphosis

Indexed keywords

BIRD; INSECT; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031874901     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(98)00021-2     Document Type: Article

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