Muscle composition after 14-day hindlimb unloading in rats: Effects of two herbal compounds

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 926-931

  Zhang, Haixiang ^a   He, Zhixian ^a   Gao, Yunfang ^a   Hinghofer Szalkay, Helmut G ^b,c   Fan, Xiaoli ^d  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Institute of Adaptive and Spaceflight Physiology   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Countermeasure; Muscle atrophy; Myosin ATPase; Simulated weightlessness

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ASTRAGALUS EXTRACT; FERULIC ACID; HC 1; HC 2; MYOSIN; TETRAMETHYLPYRAZINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MEDICINAL PLANT; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE TISSUE; MUSCLE WEIGHT BODY WEIGHT RATIO; NONHUMAN; RAT; SIMULATION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; WEIGHT BEARING; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MYOSINS; PYRAZINES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 34848883656     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2072.2007     Document Type: Article

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