The effect of swimming exercise on the diaphragm of the rat

Biology of Sport

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 261-268

  Cabric M ^a   James, N T ^b  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capillary; Diaphragm; Exercise; Myonuclei; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; EXERCISE TEST; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; STEREOLOGY; SWIMMING;

EID: 0242331161     PISSN: 0860021X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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