Functional and clinical significance of skeletal muscle architecture

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1647-1666

  Lieber, Richard L ^a,b,c   Fridén, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Architecture; Muscle design; Muscle fiber; Skeletal muscle; Tendon transfer surgery

Indexed keywords

ARM MUSCLE; DYNAMOMETRY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TENDON TRANSFER;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0033752246     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4598(200011)23:11<1647::AID-MUS1>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Review

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