Frequency-dependent power output and skeletal muscle design

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 407-417

  Medler, Scott ^a   Hulme, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Frequency; Locomotion; Power output; Resonance; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; POWER ANALYSIS; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VELOCITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 61349189542     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.11.021     Document Type: Article

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