Hamstring contractures in children with spastic cerebral palsy result from a stiffer extracellular matrix and increased in vivo sarcomere length

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 589, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2625-2639

  Smith, Lucas R ^a   Lee, Ki S ^d   Ward, Samuel R ^b   Chambers, Henry G ^e   Lieber, Richard L ^a,c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f Department of Veterans   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; HYDROXYPROLINE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SPASTICITY;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CONTRACTURE; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; SARCOMERES; THIGH;

EID: 79955967577     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.203364     Document Type: Article

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