Sarcomere popping requires stretch over a range where total tension decreases with length [1]

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 574, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 627-628

  Morgan, David L ^a   Proske, Uwe ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

CORE TEMPERATURE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; LETTER; LOW TEMPERATURE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TONE; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE LENGTH; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; LIMB; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PASSIVE MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CALCIUM; ELASTICITY; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MICROFILAMENTS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOFIBRILS; PSOAS MUSCLES; RABBITS; REFLEX, STRETCH; SARCOMERES; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33745740214     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.574201     Document Type: Letter

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