Muscle fiber types of human extraocular muscles: A histochemical and immunohistochemical study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 980-990

  Wasicky, Richard ^a   Ziya Ghazvini, Farzad ^b   Blumer, Roland ^b   Lukas, Julius Robert ^b   Mayr, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGED; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE FIBERS; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; MYOSINS; NADH TETRAZOLIUM REDUCTASE; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 0034034782     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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