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Specific tension of human elbow flexor muscles
V R Edgerton1, P Apor, R R Roy
1Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
Acta Physiologica Hungarica
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Human muscle has a specific tension that is similar to that of other mammalian skeletal muscle. Further, it appears that with the appropriate application of present imaging capabilities, the specific tension of human muscle can be defined more precisely.