Effects of chronic hindlimb suspension on landing performance in response to head-down drop in rats

Japanese Journal of Aerospace and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 21-29

  Kawano, Fuminori ^a   Nomura, Takeshi ^a   Ishihara, Akihiko ^a   Nonaka, Ikuya ^a   Ohira, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electromyogram; Hindlimb unloading; Landing performance; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HINDLIMB; IMMOBILIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANKLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NECK MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WISTAR RAT;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANKLE JOINT; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK MUSCLES; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 0036592334     PISSN: 03870723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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