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In Vivo Canine Muscle Function Assay
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April 05, 2011
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1Department of Neurology and Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine,Wake Forest University, 2Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise,Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 3Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Neurology and the Gene Therapy Center ,University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
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We describe a minimally-invasive and painless method to measure canine hindlimb muscle strength and muscle response to repeated eccentric contractions.
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Childers, M. K., Grange, R. W., Kornegay, J. N. In Vivo Canine Muscle Function Assay. J. Vis. Exp. (50), e2623, doi:10.3791/2623 (2011).
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