Adaptive responses to muscle lengthening and shortening in humans

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 765-772

  Hortobágyi, Tibor ^a   Hill, Jeff P ^a   Houmard, Joseph A ^a   Fraser, David D ^a,b   Lambert, Nancy J ^a   Israel, Richard G ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Eastern Carolina Internal Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

eccentric exercise; electromyography; muscle fibers

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; MALE; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TRAINING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029869781     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1996.80.3.765     Document Type: Article

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