The effect of a unilateral muscle transplantation on the muscle fiber type and the MyHC isoform content in unoperated hind limb slow and fast muscles of the inbred lewis rats

Physiological Research

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 691-696

  Zacharova G ^a   Vadaszova A ^a   Smerdu, V ^b   Asmussen, G ^c   Soukup, T ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gel electrophoresis; Immunocytochemistry; Influence of surgery; Muscle fiber phenotype; Muscle transplantation; Rat hind limb muscles; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FAST MUSCLE; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; ISOTRANSPLANTATION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SLOW MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; THYROID GLAND;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOFIBRILS; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 31544436331     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: 08628408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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