Muscle fiber population and biochemical properties of whole body muscles in thoroughbred horses

Anatomical Record

Volumn 292, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1663-1669

  Kawai, Minako ^a   Minami, Yoshio ^a   Sayama, Yukiko ^a   Kuwano, Atsutoshi ^b   Hiraga, Atsushi ^b   Miyata, Hirofumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b EQUINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Metabolic enzyme; Muscle fiber type; Thoroughbred

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BREATHING MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXERCISE; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; HORSE; MALE; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; DIAPHRAGM; HORSES; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASES; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

CONGIOPODIDAE; EQUIDAE;

EID: 70449679049     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20961     Document Type: Article

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