Levels of myosin heavy chain mRNA transcripts and content of protein isoforms in the slow soleus muscle of 7-month-old rats with altered thyroid status

Physiological Research

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 221-225

  Vadaszova A ^a   Hudecova S ^b   Krizanova O ^b   Soukup, T ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

mRNA transcripts; Myosin heavy chains; Rat soleus muscle; SDS PAGE and RT PCR; Thyroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; MYOSIN I; MYOSIN IIA; MYOSIN IIB;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INBRED STRAIN; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SLOW MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; THYROID FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33646157946     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: 08628408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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