Skeletal muscle adaptation to chronic low-frequency motor nerve stimulation

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 313-360

  Kraus, William E ^a   Torgan, Carol E ^a   Taylor, Doris A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; MESSENGER RNA; MUSCLE PROTEIN; MYOSIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GLYCOGEN; HUMAN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028318041     PISSN: 00916331     EISSN: 15383008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/00003677-199401000-00014     Document Type: Article

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