Effects of muscle immobilization at different lengths on tetrodotoxin-induced disuse atrophy

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 209-217

  Salter, Anne Caroline Dupont ^a,b   Richmond, Frances J R ^b   Loeb, Gerald E ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Disuse; Muscle length; Rats

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY;

MUSCLE IMMOBILIZATION;

MUSCLE;

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE LENGTH; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; ANKLE JOINT; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISORDERS, ATROPHIC; ORGAN SIZE; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0141621102     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2003.817675     Document Type: Article

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