Effects of immobilizing a single muscle on the morphology and the activation of its muscle fibers

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 495-505

  Giroux Metges, Marie Agnès ^a   Pennec, Jean Pierre ^a   Petit, Julien ^b   Morel, Julie ^a   Talarmin, Hélène ^a   Droguet, Mickaël ^a   Dorange, Germaine ^a   Gioux, Maxime ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE ET DES SCIENCES DE LA SANTÉ   (France)

^b Laboratoire VSTII   (France)

Author keywords

Electromyographic activity; Immobilization; Peroneus muscle; Soleus muscle

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TENDON; TIME; TREADMILL;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 22044432437     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2005.03.008     Document Type: Article

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