Changes in contractile properties of motor units of the rat medial gastrocnemius muscle after spinal cord transection

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 887-895

  Celichowski, Jan ^a   Mrówczyński, Włodzimierz ^a   Krutki, Piotr ^a   Górska, Teresa ^b   Majczyński, Henryk ^b   Sławińska, Urszula ^b  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

^b NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; POST TETANIC POTENTIATION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

EID: 33747607467     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2005.033076     Document Type: Article

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