Myosin heavy chain isoform expression following reduced neuromuscular activity: Potential regulatory mechanisms

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 661-679

  Talmadge, Robert J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcineurin; Hindlimb unloading; Limb immobilization; MyoD; Myogenin; Spaceflight; Spinal cord injury; Spinal cord transection; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; CYCLOSPORIN; DNA; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; MYOGENIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; PROTEIN; TACROLIMUS; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; BED REST; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MOTONEURON; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SPACE FLIGHT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0034019038     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(200005)23:5<661::AID-MUS3>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Review

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