Axon and muscle spindle hyperplasia in the myostatin null mouse

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-184

  Elashry, Mohamed I ^a,b   Otto, Anthony ^a   Matsakas, Antonios ^a   El Morsy, Salah E ^b   Jones, Lisa ^a   Anderson, Bethan ^a   Patel, Ketan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Axon; Muscle; Myostatin; Nerve fibre; Proprioceptor; Skeletal; Spindle

Indexed keywords

MYOSTATIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RADIAL NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; AXONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERTROPHY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSTATIN;

EID: 78650909064     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2010.01327.x     Document Type: Article

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