Genetic determinants of weight of fast- and slow-twitch skeletal muscles in old mice

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 615-628

  Lionikas, Arimantas ^a,b   Blizard, David A ^a   Vandenbergh, David J ^a   Stout, Joseph T ^a   Vogler, George P ^a   McClearn, Gerald E ^a   Larsson, Lars ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 19; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GENDER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; HEREDITY; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

AGING; ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 33745224537     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: 14321777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00335-005-0177-x     Document Type: Article

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