Responses of skeletal muscles to gravitational unloading and/or reloading

Journal of Physiological Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 293-310

  Ohira, Takashi ^a   Kawano, Fuminori ^b   Ohira, Tomotaka ^c   Goto, Katsumasa ^c   Ohira, Yoshinobu ^d  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOYOHASHI SOZO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gravitational unloading; Morphological, metabolic, and contractile properties; Neural, mechanical, and metabolic factors; Responses of skeletal muscles

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BED REST; BIOMECHANICS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GRAVITY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; PHYSIOLOGY; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BED REST; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ENERGY METABOLISM; GRAVITATION; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SARCOMERES; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 84931577194     PISSN: 18806546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12576-015-0375-6     Document Type: Review

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