Tendon organs as monitors of muscle damage from eccentric contractions

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 346-355

  Gregory, J E ^a   Morgan, D L ^b   Proske, U ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contracture; Eccentric exercise; Injury; Passive tension; Tendon organ

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSOR; TENDON;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0042667160     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1508-3     Document Type: Article

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