Does daily activity level determine muscle phenotype?

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 3761-3770

  Hodgson, John A ^a   Roy, Roland R ^a   Higuchi, Norio ^b   Monti, Ryan J ^a   Zhong, Hui ^a   Grossman, Elena ^a   Edgerton, V Reggie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Mie Chukyo University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Daily EMG duration; Daily integrated EMG; Motor unit recruitment; Muscle fiber type composition; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 27644470888     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01825     Document Type: Article

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