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Mizuki Sudo1, Soichi Ando2, Yutaka Kano3

  • 1Physical Fitness Research Institute Meiji Yasuda Life Foundation of Health and Welfare, Tobuki 150, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0001, Japan.

Muscle & Nerve
|September 27, 2016
PubMed
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Keywords:
blood flow restrictioncross-sectional areaeccentric contractionelectrical stimulationhypertrophymuscle

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