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High-energy-phosphates measured by 31P-MRS during LBNP in exercising human leg muscle

S Baerwalde1, J Zange, K Muller

  • 1German Aerospace Center, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Cologne, Germany.

Journal of Gravitational Physiology : a Journal of the International Society for Gravitational Physiology
|September 7, 2001
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