Effects of hindlimb unloading at early postnatal growth on cell body size in spinal motoneurons innervating soleus muscle of rats

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-26

  Nagatomo, Fumiko ^a   Ishihara, Akihiko ^a   Ohira, Yoshinobu ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ambulation recovery; Cell body size; Early postnatal growth; Hindlimb unloading; Rat spinal motoneuron; Succinate dehydrogenase activity

Indexed keywords

SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL SIZE; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GAMMA MOTONEURON; HINDLIMB; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; MOBILIZATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BENZIMIDAZOLES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ENLARGEMENT; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SPINAL CORD; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 58249090178     PISSN: 07365748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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