Effects of reduced joint mobility on sarcomere length, collagen fibril arrangement in the endomysium, and hyaluronan in rat soleus muscle

Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 159-166

  Okita, Minoru ^a   Yoshimura, Toshiro ^a   Nakano, Jiro ^b   Motomura, Masakatsu ^a   Eguchi, Katsumi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Inoue Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; HYALURONIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANKLE; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT LIMITATION; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STAINING;

ANIMALS; FIBRILLAR COLLAGENS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HYALURONIC ACID; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SARCOMERES; TARSAL JOINTS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; HYA;

EID: 4043126858     PISSN: 01424319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JURE.0000035851.12800.39     Document Type: Article

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