Morphology and myofiber composition of skeletal musculature of the forelimb in young and aged wild type and myostatin null mice

Rejuvenation Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 269-281

  Elashry, Mohamed I ^a,b   Otto, Anthony ^a   Matsakas, Antonios ^a   El Morsy, Salah E ^b   Patel, Ketan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Mansoura University   (Egypt)

^c School of Biological Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSTATIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FORELIMB; GLYCOLYSIS; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE GROWTH; MUSCLE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ANIMALS; FORELIMB; GLYCOLYSIS; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; MYOSTATIN; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; RATS;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 70350072989     PISSN: 15491684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/rej.2009.0870     Document Type: Article

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