The viscous, viscoelastic and elastic characteristics of resting fast and slow mammalian (rat) muscle fibres

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 496, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 827-836

  Mutungi, G ^a   Ranatunga, K W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; DIACETYL OXIME; ISOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; MALE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELAXATION TIME; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; SOLEUS MUSCLE; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0029992593     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021730     Document Type: Article

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