Characterisation of connective tissue from the hypertrophic skeletal muscle of myostatin null mice

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 220, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 603-611

  Elashry, Mohamed I ^a   Collins Hooper, Henry ^a   Vaiyapuri, Sakthivel ^a   Patel, Ketan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connective tissue; Epimysium; Muscle; Myostatin; Perimysium

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; MYOSTATIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIMYSIUM; GENE DELETION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PERIMYSIUM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COLLAGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSTATIN;

MUS;

EID: 84860477251     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2012.01503.x     Document Type: Article

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