Architecture of the human jaw-closing and jaw-opening muscles

Anatomical Record

Volumn 248, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 464-474

  Van Eijden, T M G J ^a   Korfage, J A M ^a   Brugman, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action line; Fiber length; Jaw muscles; Moment arm; Muscle mass; Pennation angle; Physiological cross section; Sarcomere length

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; JAW MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE LENGTH; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VELOCITY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAW; MALE; MASTICATORY MUSCLES; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SARCOMERES;

EID: 0030949268     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199707)248:3<464::AID-AR20>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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