Region- and age-dependent variations of muscle fibre properties

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-58

  Punkt, Karla ^a   Mehlhorn, Heike ^a   Hilbig, Heidegard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenosine triphosphatase; Cytophotometry; Glycerol 3 phosphate dehydrogenase; Morphometry; Skeletal muscle fibres; Succinate dehydrogenase

Indexed keywords

SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOPHOTOMETRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; GLYCOLYSIS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; RAT; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

EID: 0031936370     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-1281(98)80005-6     Document Type: Article

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