In vitro contractile responses and contracture testing of skeletal muscle from Quarter Horses with exertional rhabdomyolysis

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 684-688

  Lentz, Linnea R ^a   Valberg, Stephanie J ^a   Mickelson, James R ^a   Gallant, Esther M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRACTURE; DRUG EFFECT; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CAFFEINE; CONTRACTURE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RHABDOMYOLYSIS;

EID: 0033144788     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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