Isometric and concentric performance of electrically stimulated ankle plantar flexor muscles in intact rat

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 379-389

  Willems, Mark E T ^a   Stauber, William T ^a,b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; NONHUMAN; RAT; VELOCITY;

EID: 0033024070     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-445X.1999.01784.x     Document Type: Article

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