Fiber type composition of unoperated rat soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscles after unilateral isotransplantation of a foreign muscle in long-term experiments

Physiological Research

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 253-262

  Soukup, T ^a   Smerdu, V ^b   Zacharova G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Effect of surgical treatment; mATPase and immunohistochemistry; Muscle fiber types; Muscle transplantations; Myosin heavy chains

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOMERISM; LEWIS RAT; METABOLISM; MUSCLE FIBRIL; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOMERISM; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOFIBRILS; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 66349101625     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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