Molecular mechanisms of muscle force regulation: A role for titin?

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-57

  Herzog, Walter ^a   Duvall, Michael ^a   Leonard, Tim R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROTEIN KINASES; SARCOMERES;

EID: 84855222189     PISSN: 00916331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JES.0b013e31823cd75b     Document Type: Article

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