Aging enhances indirect flight muscle fiber performance yet decreases flight ability in Drosophila

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2391-2401

  Miller, Mark S ^a   Lekkas, Panagiotis ^a   Braddock, Joan M ^a   Farman, Gerrie P ^b,c   Ballif, Bryan A ^a   Irving, Thomas C ^b   Maughan, David W ^a   Vigoreaux, Jim O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FLYING; MICROFILAMENT; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ACTOMYOSIN; AGING; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; MYOSINS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 51649090972     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.108.130005     Document Type: Article

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