Medial gastrocnemius muscle growth during adolescence is mediated by increased fascicle diameter rather than by longitudinal fascicle growth

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 226, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 530-541

  Weide, Guido ^a,b   Huijing, Peter A ^a   Maas, Josina C ^b   Becher, Jules G ^b   Harlaar, Jaap ^b   Jaspers, Richard T ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

physiological cross sectional area; Adolescents; Development; Gastrocnemius medialis; Growth; Hypertrophy; Muscle geometry; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APONEUROSIS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BONE LENGTH; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYNAMOMETER; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPH ELECTRODE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE GROWTH; MUSCLE LENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; TIBIA; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929607179     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joa.12306     Document Type: Article

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