Nonisometric behavior of fascicles during isometric contractions of a human muscle

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1230-1235

  Ito, Masamitsu ^a,b   Kawakami, Yasuo ^a   Ichinose, Yoshiho ^a   Fukashiro, Senshi ^a   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIPPON SPORT SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Stiffness; Tendon; Ultrasound; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; TENDON; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TORQUE;

EID: 0031718962     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1998.85.4.1230     Document Type: Article

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