Human adductor muscles atrophy after short duration of unweighting

European Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 92, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 602-605

  Kawashima, Shino ^a   Akima, Hiroshi ^b   Kuno, Shin Ya ^c   Gunji, Atsuaki ^d   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^e  

^a Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d Seigakuin University   (Japan)

^e WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Bed rest; Human; Spaceflight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BED REST; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; KNEE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOBILIZATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THIGH; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ADULT; ATROPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REST; WEIGHTLESSNESS COUNTERMEASURES; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 4544245781     PISSN: 14396319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00421-004-1184-4     Document Type: Article

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