Mice without myoglobin

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6705, 1998, Pages 905-908

  Garry, Daniel J ^a   Ordway, George A ^a   Lorenz, John N ^b   Radford, Nina B ^a   Chin, Eva R ^a   Grange, Robert W ^a   Bassel Duby, Rhonda ^a   Williams, R Sanders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOPROTEIN; MYOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; HEART MUSCLE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LUNG VENTILATION; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; EXERTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEART; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLES; MYOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032578830     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27681     Document Type: Article

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