Hibernation: The search for treatments to prevent disuse-induced skeletal muscle atrophy

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 248, Issue , 2013, Pages 129-135

  Bodine, Sue C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROGIN 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MUSCLE RING FINGER 1 PROTEIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHRL1;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BIOGENESIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIBERNATION; HUMAN; MAFBX GENE; MURF1 GENE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCIURIDAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIBERNATION; IMMOBILIZATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE;

EID: 84879544667     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2013.06.003     Document Type: Note

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