Skeletal muscle is protected from disuse in hibernating dauria ground squirrels

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 296-300

  Gao, Yun Fang ^a   Wang, Jun ^a,b   Wang, Hui Ping ^a   Feng, Ban ^a   Dang, Kai ^a   Wang, Qi ^a   Hinghofer Szalkay, Helmut G ^c  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Extensor digitorum longus; Fiber cross sectional area; Fiber type composition; Hibernation; Myosin ATPase

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; HIBERNATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SQUIRREL;

ANIMALIA; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS DAURICUS;

EID: 84856080284     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

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