Intermuscular relationship of human muscle fiber type proportions: Slow leg muscles predict slow neck muscles

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 527-535

  Vikne, Harald ^a   Gundersen, Kristian ^a   Liestøl, Knut ^a   Mælen, Jan ^b   Vøllestad, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Human striated muscle; Immunohistochemistry; Intermuscular correlations; MyHC; Skeletal muscle phenotype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CELL FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMUSCULAR RELATIONSHIP; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE SIZE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NECK MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALENUS MEDIUS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPLENIUS MUSCLE; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; ANATOMY; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CYTOLOGY; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER;

COLORING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; AUTOPSY; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK MUSCLES;

EID: 84860341388     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.22315     Document Type: Article

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