Muscle contractile exercise through a belt electrode device prevents myofiber atrophy, muscle contracture, and muscular pain in immobilized rat gastrocnemius muscle

• Yuichiro Honda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences (Health Sciences), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Physical Therapy Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8664-475X

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• Ayumi Takahashi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Natsumi Tanaka,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Physical Therapy Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Physical Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Seirei Christopher University, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Yasuhiro Kajiwara,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Physical Therapy Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Rehabilitation, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Ryo Sasaki,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Physical Therapy Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Rehabilitation, Jyuzenkai Hospital, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Seima Okita,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Physical Therapy Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Rehabilitation, The Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Hospital, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Junya Sakamoto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences (Health Sciences), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Physical Therapy Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Minoru Okita

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: mokita@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences (Health Sciences), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Physical Therapy Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

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