Factors relating to gender specificity of unloading-induced declines in strength

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 210-217

  Deschenes, Michael R ^a   Mccoy, Raymond W ^a   Mangis, Katherine A ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Disuse; Gender; Neuromuscular; Unweighting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THIGH; TORQUE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SEX FACTORS; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863997013     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.23289     Document Type: Article

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