Excessive microtubules are not responsible for depressed force per cross-bridge in cardiac neural-crest-ablated embryonic chick hearts

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 438, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 307-313

  Hatcher, Cathy J ^a   Godt, Robert E ^b   Nosek, Thomas M ^c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defect; Contractile apparatus; Contractile proteins; Microtubules; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BETA TUBULIN; CALCIUM; COLCHICINE; MYOSIN; TROPOMYOSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HEART VENTRICLE; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINNED MUSCLE FIBER;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; MICROTUBULES; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; NEURAL CREST; TRUNCUS ARTERIOSUS; TUBULIN;

EID: 0032803542     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004240050914     Document Type: Article

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