Temperature effect on the rates of isometric force development and relaxation in the fresh and fatigued human adductor pollicis muscle

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1137-1150

  De Ruiter, C J ^a   Jones, D A ^b   Sargeant, A J ^a   De Haan, A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0032760602     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-445X.1999.01895.x     Document Type: Article

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