Effects of Therapeutic Ultrasound on Joint Mobility and Collagen Fibril Arrangement in the Endomysium of Immobilized Rat Soleus Muscle

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 237-244

  Okita, Minoru ^a   Nakano, Jiro ^a   Kataoka, Hideki ^b   Sakamoto, Junya ^b   Origuchi, Tomoki ^a   Yoshimura, Toshiro ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Nagasaki Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagen fibril arrangement; Endomysium; Immobilization; Joint mobility; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL ARRANGEMENT; ENDOMYSIUM; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT MOBILITY; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MUSCLE; RATS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

COLLAGEN FIBRIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMYSIUM; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; RAT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; HINDLIMB; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINTS; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 58249141667     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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