Pre-strained epimuscular connections cause muscular myofascial force transmission to affect properties of synergistic EHL and EDL muscles of the rat

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 819-828

  Yucesoy, Can A ^a,b,c   Baan, Guus C ^a   Koopman, Bart H F J M ^b   Grootenboer, Henk J ^b   Huijing, Peter A ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; NEUROLOGY; TENDONS;

MUSCULAR MYOFASCIAL FORCE; NONMUSCULAR TISSUES; RAT;

MUSCLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FASCIA; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; RAT; TENDON;

ANIMALS; ANKLE JOINT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FASCIA; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 25444482877     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1992523     Document Type: Article

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