Isometric and eccentric force generation assessment of skeletal muscles isolated from murine models of muscular dystrophies

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 71, 2013, Pages

  Moorwood, Catherine ^a   Liu, Min ^b   Tian, Zuozhen ^b   Barton, Elisabeth R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Animal experimentation; Animal model; Biomedical engineering; Biophysics; Cellular biology; Chemicals and drugs; Issue 71; Medicine; Mouse; Muscle damage; Muscle function; Muscles; Muscular diseases; Muscular dystrophies; Muscular dystrophy; Physiology; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, ANIMAL;

EID: 84873460035     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50036     Document Type: Article

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