Isotonic Contraction
"Isotonic Contraction" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Muscle contraction with negligible change in the force of contraction but shortening of the distance between the origin and insertion.
| Descriptor ID |
D007551
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G11.427.494.493
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| Concept/Terms |
Isotonic Contraction- Isotonic Contraction
- Contraction, Isotonic
- Contractions, Isotonic
- Isotonic Contractions
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Isotonic Contraction" by people in Profiles.
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Parr JJ, Yarrow JF, Garbo CM, Borsa PA. Symptomatic and functional responses to concentric-eccentric isokinetic versus eccentric-only isotonic exercise. J Athl Train. 2009 Sep-Oct; 44(5):462-8.
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Rice PJ, Abraham ST, Huang NY, Doman RJ. Extraneuronal uptake inhibitor U-0521 decreases contractile responses in rat vas deferens. Gen Pharmacol. 1997 Sep; 29(3):437-9.