Effects of age and nerve-repair grafts on reinnervation and fiber type distribution of rat medial gastrocnemius muscles

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 653-661

  Larkin, Lisa M ^a,b   Kuzon Jr , William M ^a,b   Halter, Jeffrey B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Denervation; Muscle fiber type grouping; Nerve repair grafting; Neural cell adhesion molecule

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENESCENCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 0038064180     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-6374(02)00190-2     Document Type: Article

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