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Transcriptional regulation of the myosin heavy chain IIb gene in inactive rat soleus.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Sept 2009
McCall Gary E, Haddad Fadia, Roy Roland R, Zhong Hui, Edgerton V Reggie, Baldwin Kenneth M
Abstract excerpt
The myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoform composition of skeletal muscle is dependent, in part, on the functional demands of the muscle. The rat soleus muscle primarily expresses the slow-contracting type I MHC; however, chronic inactivity increases expression of the faster-contracting type II MHC iso...
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