Mechanical efficiency and efficiency of storage and release of series elastic energy in skeletal muscle during stretch-shorten cycles

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1983-1997

  Ettema, G J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

elasticity; energetics; locomotion; rat; Rattus norvegicus; skeletal muscle; work loop

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ENERGY METABOLISM; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ENERGY METABOLISM; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0030249418     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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