Distinct muscle fascicle length changes in feline medial gastrocnemius and soleus muscles during slope walking

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1169-1180

  Maas, Huub ^a,b   Gregor, Robert J ^a   Hodson Tole, Emma F ^a   Farrell, Brad J ^a   Prilutsky, Boris I ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Muscle spindle; Pennation angle; Proprioceptive feedback; Tendon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TENDON; WALKING; WALKING SPEED; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; JOINT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CATS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; JOINTS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; TENDONS; WALKING;

EID: 66149107966     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01306.2007     Document Type: Article

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