Body weight, limb size, and muscular properties of early paraplegic mice

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1008-1016

  Landry, Eric ^a   Frenette, Jérome ^b   Guertin, Pierre A ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Cachexia; Force; Muscle contraction; Soleus; Spinal cord injury; Strength loss

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CACHEXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FITNESS; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LIMB; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HINDLIMB; MALE; MICE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PARAPLEGIA; REACTION TIME; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 4143090324     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/0897715041651060     Document Type: Article

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