The length of cooperative units on the thin filament in rabbit psoas muscle fibres

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 691-697

  Ding, Wei ^a   Fujita, Hideaki ^a   Kawai, Masataka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3 BUTANEDIONE; ALPHA ACTIN; CALCIUM ION; GELSOLIN; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPONIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HILL REACTION; IONIC STRENGTH; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PH; PSOAS MUSCLE; RABBIT; THIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; GELSOLIN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; PSOAS MUSCLES; RABBITS;

EID: 0036849936     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/eph8702448     Document Type: Article

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