Staircase but not posttetanic potentiation in rat muscle after spinal cord hemisection

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1455-1465

  MacIntosh, Brian R ^a   Smith, Miles J ^a   Rassier, Dilson E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Myosin light chain; Myosin phosphorylation; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; LIGHT CHAIN; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; MYOELECTRICITY; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; POST TETANIC POTENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; STAIRCASE POTENTIATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 55749101135     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21096     Document Type: Article

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