Avoidance of skeletal muscle atrophy in spontaneous and facultative hibernators

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 551-560

  Cotton, Clark J ^a   Harlow, Henry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; HIBERNATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORPHOLOGY; OVERWINTERING; PROTEIN; RODENT; SKELETON; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WINTER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIURIDAE; SEASON; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMALL INTESTINE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS LEUCURUS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 77952047093     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/650471     Document Type: Article

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