The effects of eccentric exercise have been examined in human calf and biceps muscles.
Release of muscle creatine kinase and uptake of technetium pyrophosphate have been …

We have examined muscle strength, mitochondrial enzyme activity, histochemistry and fibre
size in the quadriceps muscle of 9 patients with severe chronic heart failure. A needle …

Proportions of slow (type 1) muscle fibres of the vastus lateralis and percentage body fat
were measured in 11 healthy sedentary men. The proportion of slow muscle fibres was …

… JM Round et al. … JM Round et al. … Round, JM, 1977, Biochemical indicators of bone
maturation in adolescence. PhD Thesis, University of London, London. …

THE relative importance of the two alternative sources of vitamin D, endogenous skin synthesis
by the action of solar ultraviolet rays and dietary ingestion, is uncertain in Britain. In the …

Changes in height and weight during childhood and adolescence are well documented, yet
there is comparatively little comprehensive information about muscular development during …

An understanding of muscle structure and function, and its control in health and failure in
disease is a basis for a full understanding of human physiology. This book combines basic but …

Seventeen volunteers performed unilateral strength‐training of the quadriceps with high‐resistance,
low‐repetition, dynamic exercise, thrice weekly for an average of 5 weeks. Both …

Over 1,000 needle biopsies have been carried out at University College Hospital in London.
Needle biopsy has been used by us for histochemical and electron microscopic …

The present study examined two contrasting multilevel model structures to describe the
developmental (longitudinal) changes in strength and aerobic power in children: 1) an additive …