Morphology of the deltoid muscles in elite tennis players

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1501-1506

  Mavidis, Alexandros ^a   Vamvakoudis, Efstratios ^b   Metaxas, Thomas ^b   Stefanidis, Panagiotis ^b   Koutlianos, Nikolaos ^b   Christoulas, Kosmas ^b   Karamanlis, Aggelos ^b   Mandroukas, Konstantinos ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

ATPase histochemistry; Dominant and non dominant; Muscle adaptations; Myosin heavy chain analysis; Tennis players

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; DELTOID MUSCLE; ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; GREECE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HOMOGENATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE TRAINING; SPORTS MEDICINE; TENNIS; TISSUE HOMOGENATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOULDER; TENNIS;

EID: 34748850105     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410701213442     Document Type: Article

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