Tension delivery from short fibers in long muscles

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 51-56

  Sheard, Philip W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Compliance; Intrafascicular termination; Series fibered; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SURFACE TENSION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE TENSION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0034167867     PISSN: 00916331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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