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Ex Vivo Assessment of Contractility, Fatigability and Alternans in Isolated Skeletal Muscles
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Effects of fatiguing isometric and isotonic exercise on resisted and unresisted reaction time components

A F Morris

    European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology
    |June 15, 1977
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