Muscle physiology: Responses to exercise and training

Equine Exercise Physiology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 30-80

  Rivero, José Luis L ^a   Piercy, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-070202857-1.50005-6     Document Type: Chapter

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