Role(s) of gravitational loading during developing period on the growth of rat soleus muscle fibers

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 676-685

  Kawano, Fuminori ^a   Goto, Katsumasa ^c   Wang, Xiao Dong ^a   Terada, Masahiro ^b   Ohira, Takashi ^b   Nakai, Naoya ^a   Yoshioka, Toshitada ^d   Ohira, Yoshinobu ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOYOHASHI SOZO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HIROSAKI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antigravity muscle; Contractile properties; Muscle fiber growth; Myosin heavy chain isoform; Neuromuscular junction

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; MYOSIN I;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GRAVITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMOBILIZATION; INNERVATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WEIGHT BEARING; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WISTAR RAT;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; MYOSIN TYPE I; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; WEIGHT-BEARING; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 77949608099     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00478.2009     Document Type: Article

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