The relation between velocity of shortening and the tension‐length curve of skeletal muscle
The Journal of PhysiologyPublished 28 April 1953Open access
B. C. Abbott, D. Wilkie
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The experiments described in this paper were carried out in order to examine the relation between force and velocity in other regions of the tension-length curve.
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