Low-frequency fatigue is fibre type related and most pronounced after eccentric activity in rat medial gastrocnemius muscle

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 447, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 239-246

  Rijkelijkhuizen, J M ^a   De Ruiter, C J ^a   Huijing, P A ^a,b   De Haan, A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Concentric; Force frequency characteristics; Isometric; Muscle fatigue

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GLYCOLYSIS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0842330495     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-003-1172-2     Document Type: Article

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