Somatic and intramuscular distribution of muscle spindles and their relation to muscular angiotypes

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 229, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 263-280

  Kokkorogiannis, Theodoros ^a  

^a TEI of Athens   (Greece)

Author keywords

Muscle spindle distribution; Muscle spindles; Muscle vessels; Skeletal muscles; Skeletomuscular angiotypes

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; GLYCOLYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMATIC CELL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CATS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

FELIS CATUS;

EID: 2942740882     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.03.019     Document Type: Article

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