Changes in acetylcholine receptor function induce shifts in muscle fiber type composition

FEBS Journal

Volumn 275, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2042-2054

  Jin, Tae Eun ^a,b   Wernig, Anton ^c   Witzemann, Veit ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Acetylcholine receptor subunit knockout mice; Fast and slow muscle; Fiber type; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MYOSIN; TROPONIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RNA, MESSENGER;

MUS;

EID: 42449140208     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06359.x     Document Type: Article

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