Explosive neuromuscular performance of males versus females

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 618-629

  Hannah, Ricci ^a,b   Minshull, Claire ^a   Buckthorpe, Matthew W ^b   Folland, Jonathan P ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXPLOSIVE MUSCLE FORCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; LIFTING EFFORT; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FORCE DEVELOPMENT RATE; MUSCLE FORCE ELECTROMECHANICAL DELAY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 84860333900     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2011.063420     Document Type: Article

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