Symmetric force response of human masticatory muscles to stretch and unloading

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 371-376

  Miles, Timothy S ^a   Poliakov, Andrew V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Reflex; Stiffness; Stretch; Unloading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MASTICATION; MASTICATORY MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX;

EID: 0030946014     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005645     Document Type: Article

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