Mouse extensor digitorum longus and soleus show distinctive ultrastructural changes induced by veratrine

Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology and Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 305-313

  Da Cruz Hofling M A ^a   Dal Pai Silva, M ^b   Silva Freitas, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

EDL; Mouse; Soleus; Ultrastructural changes; Veratrine

Indexed keywords

CEVADINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SWELLING; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; INJECTION; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PREMEDICATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; SARCOLEMMA; SARCOMERE; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SODIUM TRANSPORT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; MALE; MUSCLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MITOCHONDRIA; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; SARCOMERES; TETRODOTOXIN; VERATRINE;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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