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Gender differences in the viscoelastic properties of tendon structures

✍ Scribed by Keitaro Kubo; Hiroaki Kanehisa; Tetsuo Fukunaga


Book ID
106103379
Publisher
Springer
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
277 KB
Volume
88
Category
Article
ISSN
1439-6319

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