A hypoplastic model of skeletal muscle development displaying reduced foetal myoblast cell numbers, increased oxidative myofibres and improved specific tension capacity

Abstract

Meox2(-/-) mouse provides a hypoplastic model of skeletal muscle development displaying reduced foetal myoblast cell numbers, increased oxidative myofibres and improved size of myofibres with increased specific tension capacity.

Keywords

• Meox
• embryogenesis
• myogenesis
• skeletal
• muscle
• hypertrophy