Myostatin deficiency is associated with an increase in number of total axons and motor axons innervating mouse tibialis anterior muscle

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 698-704

  Gay, Stephanie ^a,b   Jublanc, Elodie ^a   Bonnieu, Anne ^a   Bacou, Francis ^a  

^a University of Montpellier   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Innervation ratio; Motor unit; Myostatin; Neuromuscular; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

MYOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; MOTOR UNIT; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MYOSTATIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84859753432     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.23242     Document Type: Article

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