Two Experimental Strategies to Restore Muscle Mass in Adult Rats Following Spinal Cord Injury

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-134

  Murphy, René J L ^a,c   Dupont Versteegden, Esther E ^b   Houle, John D ^c  

^a Departments of Anatomy   (United States)

^b Arkansas Veterans Health Care System   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Fetal tissue transplantation; Fiber types; MyoD; Myosin heavy chain

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 0032752935     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/154596839901300205     Document Type: Article

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