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[Effect of 7-day immersion hyperkinesia on the response-strength properties of human skeletal muscles]

L S Grigor'eva, I B Kozlovskaia

    Kosmicheskaia Biologiia I Aviakosmicheskaia Meditsina
    |July 1, 1983
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