Training effects on soleus of cats spinal cord transected (T12-13) as adults

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-71

  Roy, Roland R ^a   Talmadge, Robert J ^a,b   Hodgson, John A ^a   Zhong, Hui ^a   Baldwin, Kenneth M ^c   Edgerton, V R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat; Contractile properties; Exercise; Fatigue; Myosin heavy chains; Spinal cord injury; Spinal cord transection

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TRAINING; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CATS; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOFIBRILS; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; MYOSINS; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0031962059     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199801)21:1<63::AID-MUS9>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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