Upper airway collapsibility, and contractile and metabolic characteristics of musculus uvulae

FASEB Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 897-904

  Sériès, Frédéric ^a   Côté, Claude ^b   Simoneau, Jean Aimé ^b   St Pierre, Sylvain ^a   Marc, Isabelle ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

human skeletal muscle; metabolic profile; muscle fatigue; muscle fiber area; upper airway dilator muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PALATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOPLASTY;

EID: 0030002523     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.10.8.8666167     Document Type: Article

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