Impact of repetition number on muscle performance and histological response

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1275-1281

  Baker, Brent A ^a   Mercer, Robert R ^a   Geronilla, Ken B ^a   Kashon, Michael L ^a   Miller, Gerald R ^a   Cutlip, Robert G ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b MS L 2027 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsiflexor muscles; In vivo; Muscle injury; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STEREOLOGY; SWELLING; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANKLE; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE STRETCHING EXERCISES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548358696     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/mss.0b013e3180686dc7     Document Type: Article

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