Tendon conditioning: Artefact or property?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Maganaris, Constantinos N ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creep; in vivo; Tendon viscoelasticity; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; LOADING TEST; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TENDON; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASOUND; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 0042030869     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0004     Document Type: Article

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