The 'functional muscle-cartilage unit': A reasonable approach to describe a putative relationship between muscle force and longitudinal growth at the forearm in children and adolescents?

Hormone Research

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 285-293

  Fricke, Oliver ^a   Beccard, Ralf ^a   Semler, Oliver ^a   Land, Christof ^a   Stabrey, Angelika ^a   Tutlewski, Baerbel ^a   Remer, Thomas ^b   Schoenau, Eckhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHILD NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enchondral ossification; Growth plate; Mechanical force; Perichondral apposition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION; FEMALE; GROWTH PLATE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CARTILAGE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOREARM; GROWTH PLATE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PUBERTY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52549105331     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000157875     Document Type: Article

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