New insights into the skeletal muscle phenotype of equine motor neuron disease: A quantitative approach

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 272-284

  Palencia, P ^a   Quiroz Rothe, E ^a   Rivero, José Luis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Horse; Muscle biopsy; Muscle fiber; Muscle pathology; Neuromuscular diseases

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCOGEN; MUSCLE ENZYME; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; PHOSPHOLAMBAN; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN CAPILLARY; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROPHORESIS; EQUINE MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; FEMALE; GLYCOLYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; BIOPSY; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CALCIUM-TRANSPORTING ATPASES; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; GLYCOGEN; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM-TRANSPORTING ATPASES; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 23844531255     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-004-0940-1     Document Type: Article

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