1. Changes in the elastic properties of tendon structures following 20 days bed-rest in humans

   • Keitaro Kubo
   • Hiroshi Akima
   • Tetsuo Fukunaga

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 463 - 468

2. A comparison of resistance and aerobic training for mass, strength and turnover of bone in growing rats

   • Taktuya Notomi
   • Yuichi Okazaki
   • Masashige Suzuki

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 469 - 474

3. The use of magnetic resonance images to investigate the influence of recruitment on the relationship between torque and cross-sectional area in human muscle

   • Hiroshi Akima
   • Shin-ya Kuno
   • Shigeru Katsuta

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 475 - 480

4. Effects of breathing control on cardiocirculatory modulation in Caucasian lowlanders and Himalayan Sherpas

   • Cornelius Keyl
   • Annette Schneider
   • Luciano Bernardi

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 481 - 486

5. Energy cost of front-crawl swimming at supra-maximal speeds and underwater torque in young swimmers

   • P. Zamparo
   • C. Capelli
   • A. Di Nino

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 487 - 491

6. Experimental muscle pain modulates muscle activity and work performance differently during high and low precision use of a computer mouse

   • Laila Birch
   • Thomas Graven-Nielsen
   • Lars Arendt-Nielsen

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 492 - 498

7. Energy cost and mechanical efficiency of riding a four-wheeled, human-powered, recumbent vehicle

   • P. Zamparo
   • C. Capelli
   • P. Cencigh

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 499 - 505

8. Effect of co-contractions on the cardiovascular response to submaximal static handgrip

   • J. F. Kahn
   • F. Favriou
   • R. Grucza

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 506 - 511

9. Physical activity and plasma interleukin-6 in humans – effect of intensity of exercise

   • Kenneth Ostrowski
   • Peter Schjerling
   • Bente Klarlund Pedersen

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 512 - 515

10. Ventilatory and circulatory responses at the onset of voluntary exercise and passive movement in children

    • Yasutake Sato
    • Keisho Katayama
    • Miharu Miyamura

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 516 - 523

11. Effect of postactivation potentiation on dynamic knee extension performance

    • E. Roderich Gossen
    • Digby G. Sale

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 524 - 530

12. Differential effect of knee extension isometric training on the different muscles of the quadriceps femoris in humans

    • Giuseppe Rabita
    • Chantal Pérot
    • Ghislaine Lensel-Corbeil

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 531 - 538

13. Cutaneous vasomotor adjustments during arm-cranking in individuals with paraplegia

    • Daniel Theisen
    • Yves Vanlandewijk
    • Marc Francaux

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 539 - 544

14. Estimation of %V˙O₂ reserve from heart rate during arm exercise and running

    • Arie Rotstein
    • Yoav Meckel

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 545 - 550

15. The effect of motor learning in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy patients

    • Amir H. Bakhtiary
    • Joanne Phoenix
    • Simon P. Frostick

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 551 - 558

16. In humans the oxygen uptake slow component is reduced by prior exercise of high as well as low intensity

    • K. Koppo
    • J. Bouckaert

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 559 - 565

17. Cardiovascular responses to cold-water immersions of the forearm and face, and their relationship to apnoea

    • Johan Andersson
    • Erika Schagatay
    • Boris Holm

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 566 - 572

18. Trunk muscle strength in eccentric and concentric lateral flexion

    • Qiang-Min Huang
    • Alf Thorstensson

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 573 - 577

19. Effect of dehydration on gastrointestinal function at rest and during exercise in humans

    • M. A. van Nieuwenhoven
    • B. E. P. J. Vriens
    • F. Brouns

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 578 - 584