Constancy of masseter muscle structure and function with age in F344 rats

Archives of Oral Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 139-146

  Norton, M ^a   Verstegeden, A ^a   Maxwell, L C ^a   McCarter, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing muscle; Fibre types; Masseter muscle; Rats

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE INHIBITOR; MYOSIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; TOLONIUM CHLORIDE;

AGING; ANATOMY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOCHEMISTRY; GERMFREE ANIMAL; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0035145944     PISSN: 00039969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9969(00)00107-2     Document Type: Article

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