Contractile behaviour in skeletal muscle-tendon unit during small amplitude sine wave perturbations

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1147-1155

  Ettema, G J C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Contractile element; Muscle contraction; Rat; Series elasticity

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; FREQUENCIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MUSCLE; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

CONTRACTILE ELEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RAT; SERIES ELASTICITY;

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; ELASTICITY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VELOCITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 0030248068     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9290(96)00014-0     Document Type: Article

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