Age-related changes in twitch properties of plantar flexor muscles in prepubertal children

Pediatric Research

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 966-970

  Grosset, Jean Francois ^a   Mora, Isabelle ^b   Lambertz, Daniel ^a   Perot, Chantal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TORQUE; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 27144553114     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/01.PDR.0000181375.61935.7D     Document Type: Article

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