Thixotropy in skeletal muscle and in muscle spindles: A review

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 705-721

  Proske, Uwe ^a   Morgan, David L ^a   Gregory, J Edmund ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THIXOTROPY;

ANIMAL; CALCIUM; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLES; REFLEX;

EID: 0027733755     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-0082(93)90032-N     Document Type: Article

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