Architectural and morphological assessment of rat abdominal wall muscles: Comparison for use as a human model

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 217, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 196-202

  Brown, Stephen H M ^a   Banuelos, Karina ^a   Ward, Samuel R ^a,b,c   Lieber, Richard L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal muscles; Abdominal wall; Animal model; Comparative morphology; Muscle architecture; Spine

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SARCOMERE; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SUPERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77955408805     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2010.01271.x     Document Type: Article

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