Effects of urea and trimethylamine-N-oxide on ATPase of requiem shark myofibril and its constituents

Fisheries Science

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 943-947

  Kanoh, Satoshi ^a   Kitamura, Masaya ^a   Horie, Yuta ^a   Kasama, Yuuki ^a   Niwa, Eiji ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actomyosin; Carp; Myofibrils; Myosin; Requiem shark; Trimethylamine N oxide; Urea; Urea resistibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040483133     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1444-2906.2001.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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