A catapult action for rapid limb protraction

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6918, 2003, Pages 35-36

  Lichtwark, Glen A ^a,b  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ENERGY; HAND MOVEMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; LIMB MOVEMENT; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TENDON; ANIMAL; HORSE; LIMB; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; EXTREMITIES; HORSES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037413664     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/421035a     Document Type: Article

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