Myosin expression in semitendinosus muscle during fetal development of cattle: immunocytochemical and electrophoretic analyses

Muscle fibre ontogenesis in farm animal species

“…Most of them subsequently develop into type II fibres, while a few of them also develop into type I fibres [62]. At the same time, emb, foet and alpha cardiac MHC decrease and the proportion of adult MHC (I, IIa and IIx) increases [62,72] so that developmental MHC are completely replaced by adult isoforms by the end of gestation (Fig. 7).…”

“…II). Robelin et al [72] suggest that this chronology is a function of the gestation length and animal weight at birth.…”

“…First they express slow, fast, emb, foet, and alpha cardiac MHC and from 180 days of gestation, they only express the slow MHC I isoform characteristic of the type I fibres [62,72]. In totally fast muscle, they revert to the fast phenotype through type IIC fibres [64].…”

Contractile differentiation of foetal cattle muscles: intermuscular variability

“…The conditions under which they were produced, purified and characterised were described by L6ger et al [14]. Their specificity was studied by Pons et al [23] in human muscle and their reactions with myosin from foetal and adult cattle were analysed by Robelin et al [25]. The [19].…”

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for myosin heavy chains in the horse

“…Sinha and Rose (1992) (Horak et al, 1991) or myosin heavy chains (Sinha and Rose, 1992). The production of monoclonal antibodies against slow myosin heavy chain and fast myosin heavy chain has been undertaken in other species to develop immunohistological and immunoenzymatic techniques (Winkelmann etal, 1983;Danieli Betto et al, 1986;Robelin et al, 1993). …”