Adaptation of rat soleus muscle spindles after 21 days of hindlimb unloading

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 191-199

  Rosant, C ^a   Nagel, M D ^a   Perot C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Electroneurography; Immunohistochemistry; Muscle spindle; Passive incremental stiffness; Plasticity; Soleus muscle

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; MALE; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 33746032500     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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