Scaling of skeletal muscle shortening velocity in mammals representing a 100,000-fold difference in body size

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 452, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 222-230

  Marx, James O ^a   Olsson, M Charlotte ^b   Larsson, Lars ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast and slow twitch muscle; Myosin heavy chain; Scaling; Shortening velocity

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN I; MYOSIN IIA;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; DOG; FEMUR; HORSE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY SIZE; DOGS; FEMUR; HORSES; HUMANS; MICE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PERISSODACTYLA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 33745829431     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: 14322013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-005-0017-6     Document Type: Article

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