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Skeletal muscle : form and function
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- Creator
- Brian R. MacIntosh, Phillip F. Gardiner, Alan J. McComas
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- viii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780736045179, 0736045171
- OCLC
- ocm57625723
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Structure and Development -- Muscle Architecture and Muscle Fiber Anatomy -- The Motoneuron -- The Neuromuscular Junction -- Muscle Receptors -- Muscle Formation -- Development of Muscle Innervation -- Putting Muscles to Work -- Ion Channels, Pumps, and Binding Proteins -- Axoplasmic Transport -- Resting and Action Potentials -- Neuromuscular Transmission -- Muscle Contraction -- Motor Units -- Motor Unit Recruitment -- Muscle Metabolism -- The Adaptable Neuromuscular System -- Fatigue -- Loss of Muscle Innervation -- Recovery of Muscle Innervation -- Trophism -- Disuse -- Muscle Training -- Injury and Repair -- Aging
Subjects
- Striated muscle -- Physiology.
- Striated muscle -- Anatomy.
- Muscle, Skeletal -- anatomy & histology.
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- Muscle, Skeletal -- physiology.
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- Mechanoreceptors.
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- Neuromuscular Junction -- physiology.
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