Histochemical responses of human soleus muscle fibers to long-term bedrest with or without countermeasures

Japanese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-47

  Ohira, Yoshinobu ^a   Yoshinaga, Tomoo ^a   Nonaka, Ikuya ^b   Ohara, Makoto ^a   Yoshioka, Toshitada ^c   Yamashita Goto, Katsumasa ^c   Izumi, Ryutaro ^d   Yasukawa, Koh ^d   Sekiguchi, Chiharu ^e   Shenkman, Boris S ^f   Kozlovskaya, Inessa B ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FITNESS AND SPORTS IN KANOYA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Japan Space Utiliz Promotion Center   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bedrest; Countermeasure; Fiber size; Human soleus; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED REST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

EID: 0034106921     PISSN: 0021521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.50.41     Document Type: Article

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