Specific metabolic properties of rat oculorotatory extraocular muscles can be linked to their low force requirements

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4865-4871

  Asmussen, Gerhard ^a,b   Punkt, Karla ^a   Bartsch, Bengt ^a   Soukup, Tomáš ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FORCE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE HISTOCHEMISTRY; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPHOTOMETRY; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CYTOPHOTOMETRY; FEMALE; GLYCEROLPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 56149097416     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1577     Document Type: Article

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