Disuse atrophy of human skeletal muscle: Cell signaling and potential interventions

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1860-1868

  Urso, Maria L ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Akt; Countermeasure; Detraining; Gene expression; Immobilization; Mtor; Spinal cord injury; Ubiquitin; Unloading

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; CREATINE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; NANDROLONE DECANOATE; OXANDROLONE; PROTEIN KINASE B; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE; UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; DIET THERAPY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; KINESIOTHERAPY; MEDICAL GENETICS; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE TRAINING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BED REST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MUSCULAR DISORDERS, ATROPHIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 70349675198     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181a6458a     Document Type: Article

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