Adaptations in rat skeletal muscle following long-term resistance exercise training

European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 372-378

  Duncan, Noel D ^a   Williams, David A ^a   Lynch, Gordon S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fibre types; Muscle contraction; Muscle hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; HEART SIZE; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; WEIGHT LIFTING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; HEART; HYPERTROPHY; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 0031891689     PISSN: 03015548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004210050347     Document Type: Article

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