Structural and functional determinants of human muscle power

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 323-331

  Sargeant, Anthony J ^a,b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MICRODISSECTION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEEDLE BIOPSY;

EID: 33847731176     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2006.034322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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