Spatial distribution of fiber types within skeletal muscle fascicles from standardbred horses

Anatomical Record

Volumn 268, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 131-136

  Grotmol, Sindre ^a   Totland, Geir K ^a   Kryvi, Harald ^a   Breistøl, Arild ^a   Essén Gustavsson, Birgitta ^b   Lindholm, Arne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fascicle; Histochemistry; Horse; Muscle fiber types; Skeletal muscle; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HORSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE SLICE; VETERINARY ANATOMY;

ANIMALS; HORSES; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0036789208     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.10140     Document Type: Article

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