Sex differences in contractile properties and fatigue resistance of human skeletal muscle

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 843-850

  Wüst, Rob C I ^a,b   Morse, Christopher I ^a   De Haan, Arnold ^a,b   Jones, David A ^a,c   Degens, Hans ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXIDATION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 46149103219     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2007.041764     Document Type: Article

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