Motor unit properties in the soleus muscle after its distal tendon transfer to the plantaris muscle tendon in the rat

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 553, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 925-933

  Giroux Metges, Marie Agnès ^a   Pennec, Jean Pierre ^a   Petit, Julien ^b   Goanvec, Christelle ^a   Dorange, Germaine ^c   Gioux, Maxime ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE ET DES SCIENCES DE LA SANTÉ   (France)

^b Laboratoire VSTII   (France)

^c CHU MORVAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCLE TRANSPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TENDON TRANSFER; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VENTRAL ROOT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TWITCH; TREADMILL;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFERENCE VALUES; TENDONS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0347658963     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.048389     Document Type: Article

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