Seasonal changes of myostatin expression and its relation to body Mass acclimation in the Djungarian hamster, Phodopus sungorus

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Volumn 313 A, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 548-556

  Braulke, L J ^a   Heldmaier, G ^a   Berriel Diaz, M ^b   Rozman, J ^c   Exner, C ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSTATIN; RNA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HAMSTER; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHODOPUS; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASON; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; CRICETINAE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSTATIN; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEASONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA; PHODOPUS; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

EID: 77958493078     PISSN: 19325223     EISSN: 19325231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.626     Document Type: Article

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