Effect of aestivation on muscle characteristics and locomotor performance in the Green-striped burrowing frog, Cyclorana alboguttata

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 177-182

  Hudson, N J ^a   Franklin, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aestivation; Anurans; Disuse; Immobilisation; Muscle atrophy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FROGS AND TOADS; IMMOBILIZATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; ANURA; ESTIVATION; IMMOBILIZATION; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SWIMMING;

EID: 0036938411     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-001-0242-z     Document Type: Article

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