Determination of slow-tonic MyHC immunoreactivity is an important step in the evaluation of muscle spindles in porcine extraocular muscles

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 54-64

  Friedrich, Clemens ^a   Lemm, Barbara ^a   Soukup, Tomas ^b   Asmussen, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

immunohistochemistry; muscle spindles; myosin heavy chains; porcine extraocular muscles; specific myosin heavy chain immunoreactivity of intrafusal muscle fibers

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MYOFIBRILS; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 34347336460     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2007.02.017     Document Type: Article

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