Using "mighty mouse" to understand masticatory plasticity: Myostatin-deficient mice and musculoskeletal function

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 345-359

  Ravosa, Matthew J ^a   Lpez, Elisabeth K ^b   Menegaz, Rachel A ^a   Stock, Stuart R ^b   Stack, M Sharon ^a   Hamrick, Mark W ^c  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; MUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 51849148703     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icn050     Document Type: Article

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