The history dependence of force production in mammalian skeletal muscle following stretch-shortening and shortening-stretch cycles

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 531-542

  Herzog, W ^a   Leonard, T R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Force depression; Force enhancement; Mechanisms of contraction; Muscle properties

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

FORCE DEPRESSION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRETCHING;

BIOMECHANICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; MAMMAL; MODEL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CATS; ELASTICITY; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFLEX, STRETCH;

EID: 0033995883     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(99)00221-3     Document Type: Article

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