Skeletal muscle architecture and fiber-type distribution with the multiple bellies of the mouse extensor digitorum longus muscle

Acta Anatomica

Volumn 159, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 147-155

  Lieber, Richard L ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Architecture; Compartmentalization; Extensor digitorum longus; Fiber type; Multitendon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE PERFUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE LENGTH; TENDON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANATOMY, ARTISTIC; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SARCOMERES; TOES;

EID: 0031448119     PISSN: 00015180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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