Three-dimensional ankle moments and nonlinear summation of rat triceps surae muscles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Tijs, Chris ^a   Van Dieën, Jaap H ^a   Baan, Guus C ^a   Maas, Huub ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ACHILLES TENDON LENGTH; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANKLE MOMENT SUMMATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; ISOMETRICS; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL PROCEDURE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SUMMATION; RAT; SAGITTAL PLANE ANKLE ANGLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE; ANIMAL; ANKLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HINDLIMB; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIATIC NERVE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMALS; ANKLE; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HINDLIMB; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 84909991721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111595     Document Type: Article

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