Intraoperative Single-Site Sarcomere Length Measurement Accurately Reflects Whole-Muscle Sarcomere Length in the Rabbit

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 612-617

  Takahashi, Mitsuhiko ^a   Ward, Samuel R ^a   Lieber, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Sarcomere length; tendon transfer; validation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LASER DIFFRACTION; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SARCOMERE LENGTH; TENDON TRANSFER;

ANIMALS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LASERS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RABBITS; SARCOMERES; TENDON TRANSFER;

EID: 34247569371     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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