Muscle fibre number is a possible determinant of muscle fibre composition in rats

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 267-272

  Suwa, Masataka ^a   Nakamura, T ^b   Katsuta, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Fibre number; Heredity; Muscle fibre composition; Rat; Skeletal muscle; Type II fibre

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL COUNT; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FAST MUSCLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSINS; RATS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033397334     PISSN: 00016772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201X.1999.00610.x     Document Type: Article

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