How muscle fiber lengths and velocities affect muscle force generation as humans walk and run at different speeds

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Biology

• Publication date

  2013-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Materials Science

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  DOI 10.1242/jeb.075697PMID 23470656PMCID PMC3656509
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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