Software for muscle fibre type classification and analysis

European Journal of Histochemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 87-95

  Karen, P ^a   Stevanec M ^b   Smerdu, V ^b   Cvetko, E ^b   Kubinova L ^a   Eržen, Ida ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Mismatched fibres; Muscle fibre types; Myosin heavy chain isoforms; Myosin heavy chain transcripts; Oxidative and glycolytic fibres; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN; ISOPROTEIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ANIMAL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MASSETER MUSCLE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MASSETER MUSCLE; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; MYOSINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 70349235637     PISSN: 1121760X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/ejh.2009.87     Document Type: Article

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