Horse soleus muscles: Postural sensor or vestigial structure?

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1068-1076

  Meyers, Ron A ^a   Hermanson, John W ^b  

^a WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Equus; Fiber types; Muscle; Muscle spindles; Proprioception; Soleus

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN; MYOSIN I; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ISOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; FAST MUSCLE; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HORSE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SLOW MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HORSES; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSINS; PROPRIOCEPTION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS;

EID: 33749485001     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20377     Document Type: Article

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