Stretching Skeletal Muscle: Chronic Muscle Lengthening through Sarcomerogenesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Zöllner, Alexander M ^a   Abilez, Oscar J ^b   Böl, Markus ^c   Kuhl, Ellen ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE GROWTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RABBIT; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SARCOMEROGENESIS; TENDON;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE STRETCHING EXERCISES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SARCOMERES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84867031009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045661     Document Type: Article

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