Experimental determination of sarcomere force-length relationship in type-I human skeletal muscle fibers

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2011-2016

  Gollapudi, Sampath K ^a   Lin, David C ^a,b  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

^b Pharmacology   (United States)

Author keywords

Force length; Human slow; Muscle fiber; Sarcomere; Type 1

Indexed keywords

FORCE-LENGTH; HUMAN SLOW; MUSCLE FIBER; SARCOMERE; TYPE-1;

MUSCLE; STANDARDS;

FIBERS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOFILAMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER;

CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; SARCOMERES; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 69449097858     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.06.013     Document Type: Article

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