Measuring skeletal muscle strength and endurance, from bench to bedside

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Saey, Didier ^b   Troosters, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGING; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE;

EID: 52949152766     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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