Gender Differences in the Morphometric Properties of Muscle Fibres and the Innervation Ratio of Motor Units in Rat Medial Gastrocnemius Muscle

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series C: Anatomia Histologia Embryologia

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 249-255

  Mierzejewska Krzyzowska, B ^a   Drzymala Celichowska, H ^b   Celichowski, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX FACTORS;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 79960371250     PISSN: 03402096     EISSN: 14390264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0264.2011.01066.x     Document Type: Article

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