Effect of short-duration spaceflight on thigh and leg muscle volume

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1743-1747

  Akima, H ^a   Kawakami, Y ^a   Kubo, K ^a   Sekiguchi, C ^a   Ohshima, H ^a   Miyamoto, A ^a   Fukunaga, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disuse; Human; Magnetic resonance imaging; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BED REST; CASE REPORT; COSMONAUT; GRACILIS MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; MICROGRAVITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SARTORIUS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0033770764     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-200010000-00013     Document Type: Article

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