Muscle growth and fiber type composition in hind limb muscles during postnatal development in pigs

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 182, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 171-181

  Wank, Veit ^a   Fischer, Martin S ^b   Walter, Bernd ^b   Bauer, Reinhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Muscle fibers; Muscle growth; Pig; Postnatal development; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FAST MUSCLE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE GROWTH; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SWINE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NADH TETRAZOLIUM REDUCTASE; STATISTICS; SUS SCROFA; TIME FACTORS;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33747448077     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093966     Document Type: Article

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