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1 Your objectives today! Learn the functions and properties of
 

Summary:  Types of Muscle Tissue · Smooth muscle ­ in walls of hollow organs -- blood vessels & GI ­ hair... for maintaining posture (head upright) · Important in maintaining blood pressure ­ tone of smooth muscles in walls... & needs lots O2 · Larger mitochondria generate ATP 10-46 ...

  

Source: Morrell, Thomas E. - Department of Biology, Ball State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
2 Ouabain-and Marinobufagenin-Induced Proliferation of Human Umbilical Vein Smooth Muscle Cells and a Rat
 

Summary:  and a Rat Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Line, A7r5 Joel Abramowitz, PhD; Cuiping Dai; Karen K. Hirschi, Ph... line, A7r5. Methods and Results--Both ouabain and marinobufagenin activated ...

  

Source: Askari, Amir - Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Toledo

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
3 Variable gearing in pennate muscles Emanuel Azizi*, Elizabeth L. Brainerd, and Thomas J. Roberts
 

Summary:  Variable gearing in pennate muscles Emanuel Azizi*, Elizabeth L. Brainerd, and Thomas J. Roberts... September 27, 2007) Muscle fiber architecture, i.e., the physical arrangement of fibers within a muscle... , is an important determinant of a muscle's me- chanical function. In pennate ...

  

Source: Brainerd, Elizabeth - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
4 Myosin heavy chain isoform expression in rat smooth muscle development
 

Summary:  Myosin heavy chain isoform expression in rat smooth muscle development SHERYL L. WHITE, MING YUAN... , Robert B. Low, and Muthu Periasamy. Myosin heavy chain isoform expres- sion in rat smooth muscle... development. Am. J. Physiol. 275 (Cell Physiol. 44): C581­C589, 1998.--Smooth ...

  

Source: White, Sheryl - Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Vermont

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
5 Role of caveolae in ouabain-induced proliferation of cultured vascular smooth muscle cells of the synthetic phenotype
 

Summary:  of both the Na pump 1-subunit and EGFR in the caveolae from rat A7r5 cells, whereas in both human... .1­1.0 nM in both canine and human VSMCs and 1.0 M in rat A7r5 cells, reflecting the affinity of the 1... and culture. ...

  

Source: Askari, Amir - Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Toledo

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
6 -Sarcoglycan Replaces -Sarcoglycan in Smooth Muscle to Form a Unique Dystrophin-Glycoprotein Complex*
 

Summary:  -Sarcoglycan Replaces -Sarcoglycan in Smooth Muscle to Form a Unique Dystrophin... dystrophy and cardiomyopa- thy. Here, we have characterized the smooth muscle sarcoglycan complex... that -sarcoglycan is an integral com- ponent of the smooth muscle sarcoglycan ...

  

Source: Campbell, Kevin P. - Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
7 Workloop Energetics of Antagonist Muscles Waleed Farahat and Hugh Herr
 

Summary:  Workloop Energetics of Antagonist Muscles Waleed Farahat and Hugh Herr Abstract-- The capability... of muscle to produce mechanical work under periodic motions has been traditionally estimated using... the workloop technique. We extend this method by allow- ing a pair of antagonist muscles to interact against

  

Source: Herr, Hugh - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

Collection: Engineering ; Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
8 Comments and Study Questions for Campbell: Skeletons and Muscles (pp 1063-1074)
 

Summary:  the differences between skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscles of vertebrates. 7. Note the brief discussion... Comments and Study Questions for Campbell: Skeletons and Muscles (pp 1063-1074) General Biology 2... , as you will also learn more about the names of individual muscles. This class unit will emphasize

  

Source: Prestwich, Ken - Biology Department, College of the Holy Cross

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
9 Computational Model of Levator Ani Muscle Stretch During Vaginal Delivery Lennox Hoyte, Petr Krysl, Giridhar Chukkapalli, Amitava Majumdar, Dong Ju Choi, Abhishek
 

Summary:  abnormalities. Pelvic organs, muscles, and bones were segmented, decimated, smoothed, and populated... Computational Model of Levator Ani Muscle Stretch During Vaginal Delivery Lennox Hoyte, Petr Krysl... floor muscles, particularly the levator ani (LA) muscle. Methods. A 21 year old ...

  

Source: Majumdar, Amit - San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences ; Fission and Nuclear Technologies

 
10 doi: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0354 , 1463-14653662011Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B
 

Summary:  . Biewener and Scott L. Delp and control movement Mechanics, modulation and modelling: how muscles actuate... ;Introduction Mechanics, modulation and modelling: how muscles actuate and control movement Timothy E. Higham1... and variable. The critical role of muscles in animal movement has captivated scientists for over 300 years

  

Source: Higham, Tim - Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
11 doi: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0354 , 1463-14653662011Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B
 

Summary:  & Casius [14] analyse a simulation of hopping and show that subjects activate their muscles to make smooth... . Biewener and Scott L. Delp and control movement Mechanics, modulation and modelling: how muscles actuate... .royalsocietypublishing.orgDownloaded from #12;Introduction Mechanics, modulation and modelling: how ...

  

Source: Stanford University - Department of Bioengineering, Skeletal Mechanobiology Research Grouop

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
12 Muscle Activation and Deactivation Dynamics: The Governing Properties in Fast Cyclical
 

Summary:  to generate muscle coordination patterns for a smooth well-coordinated movement. Through learning... ARTICLE Muscle Activation and Deactivation Dynamics: The Governing Properties in Fast Cyclical... Restoration, Stanford University, Stanford, California NEPTUNE, R.R., and S.A. KAUTZ. Muscle activation

  

Source: Neptune, Richard R.- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

 

Collection: Engineering

 
13 ISSN: 1524-4571 Copyright 2009 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7330. Online
 

Summary:  were from Molecular Probes. Co-immunoprecipitation Assays: A7r5 or primary rat aortic smooth muscle... interacts with ROCK2 in VSMCs. A, ROCK1 and ROCK2 were immunoprecipitated from ...

  

Source: Boston University, Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
14 ISSN: 1524-4571 Copyright 2009 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7330. Online
 

Summary:  were from Molecular Probes. Co-immunoprecipitation Assays: A7r5 or primary rat aortic smooth muscle... with ROCK2 in VSMCs. A, ROCK1 and ROCK2 were immunoprecipitated from A7r5 cells ...

  

Source: Zhang, Xin - Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
15 Engineered Muscle Actuators: Cells and Tissues
 

Summary:  of fundamentally different types of muscle tissue (skeletal, cardiac, or smooth), depending upon the functional... 9 Engineered Muscle Actuators: Cells and Tissues Robert G. Dennis and Hugh Herr CONTENTS 9... ...

  

Source: Herr, Hugh - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

Collection: Engineering ; Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
16 Artificial MusclesArtificial Muscles Douglas ThorDouglas Thor
 

Summary:  , voluntary, striated SmoothSmooth ­­ involuntaryinvoluntary CardiacCardiac ­­ heart muscle, involuntary... Artificial MusclesArtificial Muscles Douglas ThorDouglas Thor #12;Human MusclesHuman Muscles 3... types of muscle3 types of ...

  

Source: Hansma, Paul - Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
17 A Computational Model of Muscle Recruitment for Wrist ANDREW H. FAGG,1
 

Summary:  - lar regularities in the muscle recruitment pattern. First, the muscles were recruited in a smooth... A Computational Model of Muscle Recruitment for Wrist Movements ANDREW H. FAGG,1 ASHVIN SHAH,2... Fagg, Andrew H., Ashvin Shah, and Andrew G. Barto. A com- putational model of muscle ...

  

Source: Fagg, Andrew H. - School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma; Massachusetts at Amherst, University of - Architecture and Language Implementation

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences ; Engineering

 
18 Chapter 12 Outline Skeletal Muscles
 

Summary:  Energy Requirements of Skeletal Muscle Neural Control of Skeletal Muscles Cardiac and Smooth Muscle 12... muscles perform smooth movements? Recruitment!!!!: Brain estimates number of motor units required... chambers Cardiac muscle 12-75 Cardiac ...

  

Source: Morrell, Thomas E. - Department of Biology, Ball State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
19 RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN Plasticity of airway smooth muscle phenotype
 

Summary:  RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN Plasticity of airway smooth muscle phenotype in airway remodeling... characterization of serum- and growth 31 factor-induced phenotypic changes in intact bovine tracheal smooth muscle... . Br J Pharmacol (2002) 137:459-66 Chapter 3 Insulin induces a hypercontractile airway ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
20 Bart G.J. Dekkers Harm Maarsingh
 

Summary:  , Kester M. NO regulates PDGF- induced activation of PKB but not ERK in A7r5 cells: implications... Proc Am Thoracic Soc (2009) 8:683-692 2Airway structural components drive airway smooth muscle... characterized by pathological changes in the airway ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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21 ABNORMALITIES IN NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION STRUCTURE AND SKELETAL MUSCLE FUNCTION IN MICE LACKING
 

Summary:  ABNORMALITIES IN NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION STRUCTURE AND SKELETAL MUSCLE FUNCTION IN MICE LACKING... ). However, the role of this neurotransmitter in muscle function remains unclear. The P2X2 ion channel re... - ceptor subunit is expressed during development of the skel- etal NMJ, but not in adult muscle fibers

  

Source: Burnstock, Geoffrey - Autonomic Neuroscience Centre, University College London

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
22 1) Which of the following muscles is most involved in typing? A) flexor digitorum longus
 

Summary:  C) extrinsic ocular muscles D) intrinsic ocular muscles E) smooth muscle 25) What is the insertion... 1) Which of the following muscles is most involved in typing? A) flexor digitorum longus B) flexor... digitorum brevis C) flexor digitorum superficialis D) flexor digitorum profundus E) ...

  

Source: Houde, Peter - Department of Biology, New Mexico State University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
23 Artificial Muscle Construction Using Natural Rubber Latex in Thailand
 

Summary:  : · The response of an artificial muscle was smooth and worked great. · The force per weight ratio... Artificial Muscle Construction Using Natural Rubber Latex in Thailand Sathaporn Laksanacharoen... THAILAND Email: STL@kmitnb.ac.th Abstract-- This artificial muscle, also known as McKibben artificial

  

Source: Laksanacharoen, Sathaporn - Mechanical Engineering Department, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok

 

Collection: Engineering

 
24 IOP PUBLISHING JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING J. Neural Eng. 6 (2009) 036001 (15pp) doi:10.1088/1741-2560/6/3/036001
 

Summary:  (GTOs) located in the skeletal muscles provide the central nervous system with information about muscle... tension. The ensemble firing of all GTO receptors in the muscle has been hypothesized to represent... a reliable measure of the whole muscle force but the precision and accuracy of that information are ...

  

Source: Loeb, Gerald E. - Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Engineering

 
25 J. exp. Biol. 168, 23-40 (1992) Printed in Great Britain @ The Company of Biologists Limited 1992
 

Summary:  between the accelerator muscle (the muscle that powers tongue projection) and the entoglossal process (the... has shown that there is a delay of about 185ms between the onset of accelerator muscle activity... of the accelerator muscle mounted on isolated entoglossal and surrogate processes were stimulated ...

  

Source: Bennett, Albert F. - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of California, Irvine

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
26 List of publications List of publications
 

Summary:  . Functional consequences of human airway smooth muscle phenotype plasticity. Submitted 2010 SS Roscioni, BGJ... Dekkers, AG Prins, H Meurs, M Schmidt, H Maarsingh. cAMP inhibits airway smooth muscle phenotype... . Activation of RGD-binding integrins regulates allergen-induced airway ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
27 ORIGINAL PAPER Gene expression analyses of essential catch factors in the smooth
 

Summary:  proteins is uncertain. Here we report on the development of catchability of the adductor smooth muscle... in the smooth and striated adductor muscles. Twitchin was mainly expressed in the smooth adductor muscle during... to the smooth adductor ...

  

Source: Johnston, Ian A. - Gatty Marine Laboratory, School of Biology, University of St Andrews

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
28 Sustaining high-frequency muscle contractions involves substantially reducing the metabolic energy cost per
 

Summary:  Sustaining high-frequency muscle contractions involves substantially reducing the metabolic energy... very different implications for muscle strain and activation patterns than does elastic recoil... of in vivo muscle strain and activation. Minimal cross-bridge cycling has been determined in insect muscles

  

Source: Lindstedt, Stan - Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University; Moon, Brad - Biology Department, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
29 Factors Influencing Human Postures 3.1 Introduction
 

Summary:  ]. In the human body, there are three types of muscles: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Skeletal muscles... are connected to bones to provide movement. Smooth muscles form the walls of organs, such as the stomach... by the human body are very difficult to simulate since the human body has ...

  

Source: Rodríguez, Inmaculada - Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada i Anàlisi, Universitat de Barcelona

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
30 for peristalsis without the longitudinal muscle layer, a tremendous benefit that may explain the existence of
 

Summary:  subjects were done referenced to the peak in LLS. Tmuscle Rcirc #12;the smooth muscle sphincter orad... sphincteric smooth muscle is designed to maintain tone in the resting contracted state, it is well suited... of longitudinal and smooth muscle contraction in ...

  

Source: Brasseur, James G. - Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
31 BIOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR ENGINEERS Laboratory Experience #3 [Skeletal Muscle Biomechanics]
 

Summary:  , is found to describe nearly all muscle thus far examined, include cardiac and smooth muscle as well... ME498/599 BIOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR ENGINEERS Laboratory Experience #3 [Skeletal Muscle... physiologic range of muscle lengths and arm positions. Study inverse relationship between ...

  

Source: Sniadecki, Nathan J. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Engineering

 
32 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING, VOL. 13, NO. 4, DECEMBER 2005 473 An Apparatus for Characterization and
 

Summary:  . [18] A. Krylow and W. Z. Rymer, "Role of intrinsic muscle properties in producing smooth movements... 473 An Apparatus for Characterization and Control of Isolated Muscle Waleed Farahat and Hugh Herr... Abstract--An apparatus for characterization and control of muscle tissue is presented. The apparatus

  

Source: Herr, Hugh - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

Collection: Engineering ; Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
33 List of publications Full papers
 

Summary:  , Meurs H, Maarsingh H, Schmidt M. Functional roles of Epac and PKA in human airway smooth muscle... AMP effectors Epac and PKA in airway smooth muscle synthetic function. Submitted (2010)/ Roscioni SS, Dekkers... M. Epac as a novel effector of airway smooth muscle ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
34 Bio390 Study Questions for S-N Ch. 10 Ch. 10 up to page 442 (buoyancy)
 

Summary:  significance to the fact that smooth muscles can exert the same force at a variety of lengths? 6. What... are tubulin and dynein? 2. Be able to explain why, on a molecular basis, muscle strength is increased... by adding parallel elements. Are there other ways to make muscles stronger? Do ...

  

Source: Prestwich, Ken - Biology Department, College of the Holy Cross

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
35 Basic Res Cardiol 97: 365 373 (2002) DOI 10.1107/s00395-002-0361-z ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION
 

Summary:  using an immortalized A7r5 rat aor- tic smooth muscle cell line. Vascular smooth muscle cells, like... the surface channels in the A7r5 ...

  

Source: Garlid, Keith - Department of Biology, Portland State University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
36 Major role of the extracellular matrix in airway smooth muscle phenotype plasticity
 

Summary:  Major role of the extracellular matrix in airway smooth muscle phenotype plasticity Implications... Airway structural components drive airway smooth muscle remodeling in asthma Proc Am Thoracic Soc (2009... ) 8:683-692 29 Chapter 3 Extracellular matrix proteins differentially regulate airway ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
37 Application-specific muscle representations Victor Ng-Thow-Hing
 

Summary:  Application-specific muscle representations Victor Ng-Thow-Hing Fundamental Research Laboratories... of Toronto elf@dgp.toronto.edu Abstract The need to model muscles means different things to artistic... muscles from contour curves extracted out of medical images, digitized fibre sets from dissections

  

Source: Fiume, Eugene - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences ; Engineering

 
38 BIOS 209 PHYSIOLOGY STUDY GUIDE What is the origin of a cell's resting membrane voltage
 

Summary:  about smooth muscle #12;How do actin and myosin interact to cause muscle shortening How and when is ATP... does the control of smooth muscle differ from that described for skeletal muscle. Where do you find... smooth muscle. ...

  

Source: Meserve, Peter L. - Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
39 Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol. Vol. 20, pp. 651657, 1999 Internet address: www.atsjournals.org
 

Summary:  .atsjournals.org Smooth-Muscle Myosin Heavy-Chain SM-B Isoform Expression in Developing and Adult Rat Lung Robert B. Low... Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont The smooth-muscle cells composing... for the SM-B smooth-muscle myosin heavy chain (SMMHC) and used these to investigate the distribution

  

Source: White, Sheryl - Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Vermont

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
40 Hypertrophy of colonic smooth muscle: contractile proteins, shortening velocity, and regulation
 

Summary:  Hypertrophy of colonic smooth muscle: contractile proteins, shortening velocity, and regulation... Morano. Hypertrophy of colonic smooth muscle: contractile proteins, shortening velocity, and regulation... . Am. J. PhysioZ. 272 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 35): G1571-G1580, 1997. - Smooth ...

  

Source: Trinkle-Mulcahy, Laura - Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine


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41 Expression of -Sarcoglycan in Smooth Muscle and Its Interaction with the Smooth Muscle Sarcoglycan-Sarcospan Complex*
 

Summary:  Expression of -Sarcoglycan in Smooth Muscle and Its Interaction with the Smooth Muscle Sarcoglycan... ­2F. In smooth muscle - and -sarcoglycans are associated with -sarcoglycan, a gly- coprotein... complex in the smooth ...

  

Source: Campbell, Kevin P. - Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
42 Copyright 2006 by ASME1 INTRODUCTION
 

Summary:  = 120 min Time = 150 min Time = 180 min Time = 210 min Mattress Fat Muscle Smooth muscle Right ischial... muscle tissue stiffens and that the extent of stiffening depends on the applied pressure and exposure... of the buttocks during wheelchair sitting with a tissue injury threshold for striated ...

  

Source: Gefen, Amit - Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Biology and Medicine

 
43 Local longitudinal muscle shortening of the human esophagus from high-frequency ultrasonography
 

Summary:  Local longitudinal muscle shortening of the human esophagus from high-frequency ultrasonography... . Brasseur, Ji-Bin Liu, and Larry S. Miller. Local longitudinal muscle shortening of the human esophagus from... pressure, from which correlations between local contraction of longitudinal and circular muscle

  

Source: Brasseur, James G. - Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
44 List of publications List of publications
 

Summary:  -induced phenotypic changes in intact bovine tracheal smooth muscle. Br J Pharmacol. 2002, 137:459-66. Gosens R... synergism of mitogenesis in airway smooth muscle. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2003, 28:257-62. Gosens R... airway smooth muscle phenotype Eur J Pharmacol. ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
45 Gene transfer establishes primacy of striated vs. smooth muscle sarcoglycan complex in
 

Summary:  Gene transfer establishes primacy of striated vs. smooth muscle sarcoglycan complex in limb... that the adenoviruses would not transduce vascular smooth muscle, and we would only target skeletal muscle. Indeed... junction, myotendinous junction, and in peripheral nerve, but not in ...

  

Source: Campbell, Kevin P. - Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
46 Objectives: The Muscular System Learn major groupings of Skeletal
 

Summary:  kinds of muscle tissue ­ skeletal, cardiac, smooth · specialized for one major purpose ­ converting... 1 11-1 Chapter 11 Objectives: The Muscular System · Learn major groupings of Skeletal muscles... · Understand how movements occur at joints · Learn the origin, insertion, function of some major muscles ...

  

Source: Morrell, Thomas E. - Department of Biology, Ball State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
47 Muscle mechanics, based on the sliding filament model of muscle contraction (Huxley and Niedergerke, 1954; Huxley
 

Summary:  of vertebrates. Z-disks are absent from smooth muscle, so it is capable of generating tension to lengths of less... Gordon and Siegman, 1971; Small et al., 1990). The drawbacks associated with smooth muscle are its low... for the prey to escape. These constraints clearly exclude smooth ...

  

Source: Nishikawa, Kiisa - Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
48 Thermal dependence of muscle function BENNETT, ALBERT F. Thermal dependence of muscle function. Am. J.
 

Summary:  -documented pattern of negative thermal modulation of PO. Most studies on mammalian smooth muscle report relatively... .1-2.8 (avg 2.3) measured at approxi- mately 25-35°C. The dP/dt of rat smooth muscle (portal vein) has a Qlo... . In mammalian smooth muscle, the ...

  

Source: Bennett, Albert F. - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of California, Irvine

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
49 Epac as a novel regulator of airway smooth muscle phenotype and function
 

Summary:  Epac as a novel regulator of airway smooth muscle phenotype and function Potential implications... -induced interleukin-8 release from human airway smooth muscle cells Respir Res (2009), 10: 88 79 Chapter 5 Interaction... between cigarette smoke and cAMP signaling in airway smooth ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
50 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Heterologous amplification of homologous
 

Summary:  in airway smooth muscle: implications for asthma? Proefschrift ter verkrijging van het doctoraat in de... Boterman, M. Heterologous amplification of homologous -adrenoceptor desensitization in airway smooth muscle... in bovine 67 tracheal smooth muscle by inhibition ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
51 RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN Central role of Rho-kinase in the pathophysiology of
 

Summary:  agonists in airway smooth muscle contraction Br J Pharmacol (2006) 147:737-743 33 Chapter 3 Growth factor... -induced contraction of human bronchial smooth muscle is Rho-kinase dependent Eur J Pharmacol (2004) 494:73-76 47... Chapter 4 Role of contractile prostaglandins and Rho-kinase in growth factor-induced ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
52 List of publications List of publications
 

Summary:  J, Nelemans SA Role of Rho-kinase in maintaining airway smooth muscle contractile phenotype Eur J... , Meurs H Muscarinic M3-receptor dependent regulation of airway smooth muscle contractile phenotype Br J... , Nelemans SA Growth factor-induced contraction of human bronchial smooth ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
53 Introduction Joints and the muscle articulation
 

Summary:  118 Introduction Joints and the muscle articulation Any structure in which a rigid portion, or link... muscles and may amplify their force, displacement or velocity. Animal joints show great morphological... segments of smaller insects use this mechanism. The joint studied here, termed a `muscle articulation

  

Source: Kier, William M. - Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Uyeno, Ted - Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
54 Our understanding of the necessity of considering peripheral properties when investigating how neural activity generates
 

Summary:  dependence and intercontraction temporal summation could easily be present. Smooth muscles in vertebrates... Vertebrate smooth muscle is active, slow, graded, and receives extensive modulatory input. Autonomic neural... observed in invertebrates may also occur in vertebrate smooth ...

  

Source: Weaver, Adam Lee - Department of Biology, Saint Michaels College

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
55 Aerobic muscle function during steady swimming in fish David J Coughlin
 

Summary:  Aerobic muscle function during steady swimming in fish David J Coughlin Department of Biology... produc- tion, red muscle, sonomicrometry FISH and FISH E RIE S, 2002, 3, 63^78 # 2002 Blackwell Science... an impressive array of solutions to the problem of how to use the red (aerobic, slow-twitch) muscle to power

  

Source: Coughlin, David J. - Science Division, Widener University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
56 Stimulation Pattern That Maximizes Force in Paralyzed and Control Whole Thenar Muscles
 

Summary:  Stimulation Pattern That Maximizes Force in Paralyzed and Control Whole Thenar Muscles LISA GRIFFIN... and control whole thenar muscles. J Neurophysiol 87: 2271­2278, 2002; 10.1152/jn.00680.2001. The pattern... of seven pulses that elicited maximal thenar force was determined for control muscles and those that have

  

Source: Griffin, Lisa - Institute for Neuroscience & Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
57 ORIGINAL PAPER Direct evidence that stomatogastric (Panulirus interruptus) muscle
 

Summary:  in a molluscan smooth muscle. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 158:177­195 Ru¨egg JC, Straub RW, Twarog BM (1963... ) Inhibition of contraction in a molluscan smooth muscle by thiourea, an inhibitor of the actomyosin... ORIGINAL PAPER Direct evidence that stomatogastric (Panulirus interruptus) ...

  

Source: Hooper, Scott - Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
58 A Survey of Modeling and Simulation of Skeletal Muscle DONGWOON LEE
 

Summary:  on their physiological functions, mus- cles can be classified into three types: cardiac, smooth, and skele- tal muscle... . Cardiac muscles make up the walls of the heart, while smooth muscles constitute the walls of other organs... A Survey of Modeling and Simulation of Skeletal ...

  

Source: Toronto, University of - Department of Computer Science, Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Group

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
59 The autonomic neuromuscular junction differs in several important respects from the better known skeletal neuro-
 

Summary:  smooth muscle cells, which are connected by low- resistance pathways (gap junctions) that allow... smooth muscle by perivascular nerves and by endothelial relaxing and contracting factors. Neuroeffector... coat of the gastrointestinal tract, autonomic nerves and smooth ...

  

Source: Burnstock, Geoffrey - Autonomic Neuroscience Centre, University College London

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
60 36 W.A. LAFRAMBOISE ET AL.JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY 286:3648 (2000) 2000 WILEY-LISS, INC.
 

Summary:  . Muscle Type­Specific Myosin Isoforms in Crustacean Muscles WILLIAM A. LAFRAMBOISE,1 BRUCE GRIFFIS,2... , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15024 2 Nerve-Muscle Group, Thomas Hunt Morgan School of Biological Sciences... , and enzymatic properties character- istic of skeletal muscle. Hypotheses to explain myofiber ...

  

Source: Cooper, Robin L. - Department of Biology, University of Kentucky

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine


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61 TECHNOLOGY REPORT Transgenic Mice That Express Cre Recombinase Under
 

Summary:  and smooth muscle, both contractile tis- sues that share numerous characteristics with skeletal muscle... that are expressed in both cardiac and skeletal muscle, including muscle crea- tine kinase (MCK), human smooth muscle... ). Expression was ...

  

Source: Black, Brian - Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California at San Francisco

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
62 Abstract. One of the main problems in motor-control research is the muscle load sharing problem, which
 

Summary:  Abstract. One of the main problems in motor-control research is the muscle load sharing problem... , which originates from the fact that the number of muscles spanning a joint exceeds the number of degrees... of freedom of the joint. As a consequence, many dierent possibilities exist for the activation of muscles

  

Source: Gielen, C.C.A.M. - Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Radboud Universiteit

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
63 ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AS A TECHNIQUE FOR LARYNGEAL INVESTIGATION* Katherine S. Harris+
 

Summary:  of muscular activity is a contraction of the muscle fibers of a single motor unit, and the smoothly graded... , muscular forces are extremely important. In recent years, techniques for studying muscle activity... in general have improved, and with these developments, the study of the laryngeal muscles in ...

  

Source: Yale University, Haskins Laboratories

 

Collection: Multidisciplinary Databases and Resources ; Biology and Medicine

 
64 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Kristina Csukly Tanguy Marqueste Phillip Gardiner
 

Summary:  stress-activated MAP kinases in vascular smooth muscle cells (review). Int J Mol Med 1:827­834 249 #12;... muscle to a mechanical stimulus is decreased following hindlimb unweighting Accepted: 27 April 2005... to be an important stimulus regulating muscle mass. However, the responsiveness of a ...

  

Source: Manitoba, University of - Spinal Cord Research Centre

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
65 Digestive Diseases and Sciences, Vol. 51, No. 1 (January 2006), pp. 105109 (C 2006) DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-3092-4
 

Summary:  and evaluate shortening of the circular smooth muscle (CSM) and longitudinal smooth muscle (LSM... ; longitudinal smooth muscle; circular smooth muscle. The esophagus acts as a conduit for ingested food... to be delivered into ...

  

Source: Brasseur, James G. - Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
66 Hedgehog signaling is required for commitment but not initial induction of slow muscle precursors
 

Summary:  Hedgehog signaling is required for commitment but not initial induction of slow muscle precursors... Available online 1 September 2004 Abstract In zebrafish, skeletal muscle precursors can adopt at least three... distinct fates: fast, non-pioneer slow, or pioneer slow muscle fibers. Slow muscle fibers develop ...

  

Source: Devoto, Stephen H. - Biology Department, Wesleyan University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
67 Zoology 111 (2008) 483493 The integration of lateral gastrocnemius muscle function and kinematics in
 

Summary:  ZOOLOGY Zoology 111 (2008) 483­493 The integration of lateral gastrocnemius muscle function... variation in habitat structure, such as inclines. Hindlimb kinematics and muscle function in diverse groups... of variation for studying the integration of kinematics and muscle function. While it has been observed

  

Source: Higham, Tim - Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
68 ISSN: 1524-4571 Copyright 2006 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7330. Online
 

Summary:  pathological condi- tions. In A7R5 aortic smooth muscle cells expressing GFP- TRPM7, the distribution... in part to the particular morphology of vascular smooth muscle cells. ...

  

Source: Clapham, David E. - Department of Neurobiology, Harvard University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
69 Combinatorial and Cross-Fiber Averaging Transform Muscle Electrical Responses with a Large Stochastic Component into
 

Summary:  Combinatorial and Cross-Fiber Averaging Transform Muscle Electrical Responses with a Large... 95616 Pyloric muscles of the stomatogastric neuromuscular system of the lobster Panulirus interruptus... - lular recordings of extrajunctional potentials (EJPs) evoked in these muscles by motor nerve stimulation

  

Source: Weaver, Adam Lee - Department of Biology, Saint Michaels College

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
70 Architectural Gear Ratio and Muscle Fiber Strain Homogeneity in Segmented Musculature
 

Summary:  Architectural Gear Ratio and Muscle Fiber Strain Homogeneity in Segmented Musculature EMANUEL... musculature of fishes and amphibians, the patterns of muscle fiber shortening depend on both the orientation... of muscle fibers relative to the long axis of the body as well as the distance of fibers from the neutral

  

Source: Brainerd, Elizabeth - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
71 Identification of Myoglobin in Human Smooth Muscle* (Received for publication, November 7, 1997, and in revised form, June 19, 1998)
 

Summary:  Identification of Myoglobin in Human Smooth Muscle* (Received for publication, November 7, 1997... mammalian smooth muscle tissue. Examina- tion of human rectal, uterine, bladder, colon, small in- testine... , arterial, and venous smooth muscle by immunohistochemical ...

  

Source: Riggs, Austen - Section of Neurobiology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
72 Hypertrophy of colonic smooth muscle: structural remodeling, chemical composition, and force output
 

Summary:  Hypertrophy of colonic smooth muscle: structural remodeling, chemical composition, and force output... Narayan, William S. Stirewalt, and Barry C. Starcher. Hypertro- phy of colonic smooth muscle: structural... ; scleroproteins; actin; myosin; deoxyribonucleic acid IT IS WELL KNOWN that ...

  

Source: Trinkle-Mulcahy, Laura - Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
73 Editorial Focus Caveolins muscle their way into the regulation of cell differentiation,
 

Summary:  examined bladder smooth muscle and also observed oligomerization of all three caveolin isoforms. Together... is how these findings in striated muscle translate to smooth muscle physiology. Arterial, ileal, uterine... , and stomach smooth muscle ...

  

Source: Ostrom, Rennolds - Department of Pharmacology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
74 Phosphorylation of a high molecular weight (,600 kDa) protein regulates catch in invertebrate smooth muscle
 

Summary:  smooth muscle MARION J. SIEGMAN1Ã , SUSAN U. MOOERS1 , CHENQING LI1 , SRINIVASA NARAYAN1 , LAURA TRINKLE... Summary A unique property of smooth muscle is its ability to maintain force with a very low expenditure... of energy. This characteristic is highly expressed in molluscan smooth ...

  

Source: Trinkle-Mulcahy, Laura - Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
75 Src-mediated Inter-receptor Cross-talk between the Na /K -ATPase and the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Relays the Signal from
 

Summary:  -activated pro- tein kinases (MAPKs) in both cardiac myocytes and A7r5 cells. Here, we explored the roles of Src... and the EGFR in the ouabain-invoked pathways that lead to the activa- tion of MAPKs. Exposure of A7r5 and ...

  

Source: Brand, Paul H. - Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Toledo

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
76 Metabolic characteristics of cx-toxin-permeabilized smooth muscleA
 

Summary:  Metabolic characteristics of cx-toxin-permeabilized smooth muscleA LAURA TRINKLE-MULCAHY, MARION J... review, see Thomas M. Butler. Metabolic characteristics of a-toxin- permeabilized smooth muscle. Am. J... . Physiol. 266 (CeZZ Refs. 27,29). Smooth muscles ...

  

Source: Trinkle-Mulcahy, Laura - Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
77 321J. exp. Biol. 174, 321342 (1993) Printed in Great Britain The Company of Biologists Limited 1993
 

Summary:  , cotransmission, Locusta migratoria, neuromodulation, ovipositor opener muscle. THE LOCUST OVIPOSITOR OPENER... MUSCLE: PROPERTIES OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM BY JIM H. BELANGER* AND IAN ORCHARD Department of Zoology... for studying properties of neuromuscular transmission and neuromodulation in insects, the ventral opener ...

  

Source: Belanger, Jim H. - Department of Biology, West Virginia University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
78 The FASEB Journal express article 10.1096/fj.03-1175fje. Published online July 1, 2004. Purinoceptor expression in regenerating skeletal muscle in
 

Summary:  with diverse biological effects ranging from smooth muscle contraction and synaptic transmission to cell... ) with smooth muscle actin (green) demonstrated expression of this receptor on vascular smooth muscle cells (Fig... . Purinoceptor expression in regenerating ...

  

Source: Burnstock, Geoffrey - Autonomic Neuroscience Centre, University College London

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
79 Copyright @ 2009 by the American College of Sports Medicine. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. Forward Dynamics Simulations Provide Insight
 

Summary:  of this article is prohibited. Forward Dynamics Simulations Provide Insight Into Muscle Mechanical Work During... . Forward dynamics simulations provide insight into muscle mechanical work during human locomotion. Exerc... simulations can provide critical insight into muscle mechanical work output during locomotion. Simulations

  

Source: Ben-Yakar, Adela - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

 

Collection: Engineering

 
80 Introduction Specialization of muscle fibres is an important and widespread
 

Summary:  ). Electron microscopy of the smooth muscle of a cuttlefish, Sepia esculenta. Biol. J. Okayama Univ. 3, 196... 164 Introduction Specialization of muscle fibres is an important and widespread component... of the evolution of motor systems. The performance of muscle fibres, such as their maximum velocity, ...

  

Source: Kier, William M. - Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine


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81 Z .Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 00 2001 00 00 Red muscle function during steady swimming in brook11
 

Summary:  and Physiology Part A 00 2001 00 00 4 5 67 8 910 Red muscle function during steady swimming in brook11 trout, Sal... ; received in revised form 14 February 2001; accepted 19 February 200119 20 21 22 Abstract23 24 Red muscle... muscle mechanics experiments. In the swimming experiments, red muscle activity was ...

  

Source: Coughlin, David J. - Science Division, Widener University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
82 98:920-928, 2007. First published May 30, 2007; doi:10.1152/jn.00183.2007J Neurophysiol Jean-Sbastien Blouin, Gunter P. Siegmund, Mark G. Carpenter and J. Timothy
 

Summary:  Control of Superficial and Deep Neck Muscles in Humans Jean-Se´bastien Blouin,1,2 Gunter P. Siegmund,1... control of superficial and deep neck muscles in humans. J Neuro- physiol 98: 920­928, 2007. First... published May 30, 2007; doi:10.1152/jn.00183.2007. Human neck muscles have a complex multi

  

Source: Crawford, Doug - York Centre for Vision Research, York University (Toronto)

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
83 MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY, May 2004, p. 37573768 Vol. 24, No. 9 0270-7306/04/$08.00 0 DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.9.37573768.2004
 

Summary:  Is a Direct Transcriptional Target of MEF2 during Cardiac, Skeletal, and Arterial Smooth Muscle Development... sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) of cardiac and skeletal muscle and within calciosomes of arterial smooth muscle... . The expression of HRC in cardiac, skeletal, and ...

  

Source: Black, Brian - Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California at San Francisco

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
84 A missing sphincteric component of the gastro-oesophageal junction in patients with GORD
 

Summary:  the contributions from three distinct components, two of which are smooth muscle intrinsic sphincter compo- nents... the crural and two smooth muscle sphincteric components respec- tively. The subtraction pressure curve... recognized in the normal subjects, was absent. We hypothesize that the distal ...

  

Source: Brasseur, James G. - Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
85 International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor)
 

Summary:  Examples of tongue muscles extracted using Mimics. 3.2 Smooth mesh from Gambit A geometry file exported... / Accepted: date Abstract The human tongue is composed mainly of skeletal-muscle tissue, and has a com- plex... architecture. Its anatomy is characterised by interweaving, yet distinct muscle groups. It ...

  

Source: Reddy, Batmanathan Dayanand "Daya" - Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town

 

Collection: Mathematics ; Engineering

 
86 Introduction Post-embryonic change in musculoskeletal systems is
 

Summary:  performance or ecology of the animal. Squid mantle muscle In the mantle (Fig.·1) of loliginid squids... of muscle and collagenous connective tissue fibres (Young, 1938; Ward and Wainwright, 1972; Bone et al... ., 1981). The mantle includes two predominant muscle orientations: circumferential muscle fibres ...

  

Source: Kier, William M. - Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
87 Research in Zoology The Department of Zoology sits within the Faculty of Science,
 

Summary:  Excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle My research group studies... of both the conservation of species diversity and of ecological functions. Professor Graham Lamb Muscle... and diseased muscle, making matched physiological and biochemical measurements on single ...

  

Source: Frappell, Peter - Department of Zoology, University of Tasmania

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
88 Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 5, May 2005 ( 2005) pp. 661673 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-005-1433-7
 

Summary:  nodes were smoothed to result in uniform element sizes within the slice. For each muscle mesh, we... -005-1433-7 Three-Dimensional Representation of Complex Muscle Architectures and Geometries SILVIA S. BLEMKER... of the musculoskeletal system represent muscle geometry using a series of line segments. This ...

  

Source: Blemker, Silvia Salinas - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia; Stanford University - Department of Bioengineering, Skeletal Mechanobiology Research Grouop

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Engineering

 
89 Improvements on a simple muscle-based 3D face for realistic facial expressions The Duy Bui Dirk Heylen
 

Summary:  Improvements on a simple muscle-based 3D face for realistic facial expressions The Duy Bui Dirk... , we present a simple muscle-based 3D face model that can produce realistic facial expressions in real... - time. We extend Waters' muscle model to generate bulges and wrinkles and to improve the combination

  

Source: Nijholt, Anton - Department of Computer Science, Universiteit Twente

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
90 46 COMPUTING IN SCIENCE & ENGINEERING C O M P U T I N G
 

Summary:  properly coordinates the activation of many muscles, the result is smooth, purposeful movement. Scientists... in the brain are transmitted along nerves to muscles. When activated by nerves, muscles generate forces. Muscle... of experi- ments to record neuromuscular excitation pat- terns, ...

  

Source: Stanford University - Department of Bioengineering, Skeletal Mechanobiology Research Grouop

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
91 ORIGINAL PAPER Degree of neuromuscular facilitation is correlated
 

Summary:  in leg muscles of two species of crab Richard B. Dewell Æ Jim H. Belanger Received: 6 June 2008 / Revised... -Verlag 2008 Abstract Despite decades of work on the neuromuscular physiology of crustacean leg muscles, little... is known about how physiological differences between these muscles relate to their behavioral usage. We

  

Source: Belanger, Jim H. - Department of Biology, West Virginia University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
92 Role of Rho-kinase in maintaining airway smooth muscle contractile phenotype
 

Summary:  Chapter 6 Role of Rho-kinase in maintaining airway smooth muscle contractile phenotype Reinoud... -kinase in phenotype switching and proliferation of bovine tracheal smooth muscle. To induce different phenotypic... states, bovine tracheal smooth muscle strips were ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
93 Abstract--Robotic lower limb exoskeletons have been built for augmenting human performance, assisting with disabilities,
 

Summary:  with incomplete spinal cord injury have demonstrated rapid modification of muscle recruitment patterns... muscles We have primarily used artificial pneumatic muscles (sometimes called McKibben muscles) to actuate... our exoskeletons. The pneumatic muscles were constructed using an ...

  

Source: Ferris, Dan - Human Neuromechanics Laboratory, University of Michigan

 

Collection: Engineering ; Biology and Medicine

 
94 J Physiol 580.3 (2007) pp 961975 961 Pharmacological dissection of the human gastro-
 

Summary:  sphincter of circular smooth-muscle fibres within the abdominal oesophagus. Our aims were to separate... and quantify in vivo the skeletal and smooth muscle sphincteric components pharmacologically and clarify... the cholinergic smooth-muscle sphincter. The cholinergic component was reconstructed by ...

  

Source: Brasseur, James G. - Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
95 1036 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, VOL. 45, NO. 8, AUGUST 1998 Effects of Regional Stimulation Using a Miniature
 

Summary:  implantable that can be inserted percutaneously into muscles [7], [S], or stimulator on motor unit recruitment... -mm diameter) was injected either proximally near the main nerve branch, or distally near the muscle... the distribution of fibers activated by electricalstimulation. Muscle fibers were found to be depleted at most

  

Source: Loeb, Gerald E. - Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Engineering

 
96 nature neuroscience volume 3 no 3 march 2000 245 Neurons receive input across an extremely wide frequency range
 

Summary:  frequency range (from high-frequency sound at tens of kHz to circadian rhythms at 10 µHz). Muscles receive... of neurons). Neurons and muscles cannot accurately follow the higher portions of these ranges. For instance... , the refractory period limits neuron firing to a few hundred Hz, and relaxation kinetics prevent muscles ...

  

Source: Hooper, Scott - Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
97 General Discussion and Chapter 11
 

Summary:  -induced phenotypic modulation Isolated smooth muscle cells in culture do not immediately start dividing, even... to occur in vivo during periods of airway inflammation, in view of the increased airway smooth muscle (ASM... for phenotypic modulation in smooth muscle ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
98 A thermodynamic muscle model and a chemical basis for A.V. Hill's muscle equation JOSH E. BAKER1Y
 

Summary:  J, Patlak JB and Warshaw DM (1997) Smooth muscle and skeletal muscle myosins produce similar unitary... -amino-acid insert in the heavy chain nucleotide binding loop alters the kinetics of smooth muscle myosin... Kubalek EM, Smith JE, Faust L, Milligan RA and Sweeney HL (1995) A 35-AÊ ...

  

Source: Thomas, David D. - Departments of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, & Biophysics, University of Minnesota

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
99 Optimal Workloop Energetics of Muscle-Actuated Systems Waleed A. Farahat
 

Summary:  Optimal Workloop Energetics of Muscle-Actuated Systems by Waleed A. Farahat B.Sc. in Mechanical... 2007 LIBRARIES i #12;#12;Optimal Workloop Energetics of Muscle-Actuated Systems by Waleed A. Farahat... of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Abstract Skeletal muscles are the primary actuators

  

Source: Herr, Hugh - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

Collection: Engineering ; Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
100 NCI-1895; No of Pages 8 Different effects of ATP on the contractile activity of mice
 

Summary:  types, including smooth and striated muscles (Ralevic and Burnstock, 1998). It has been shown that ATP... and its analogues may cause contractions of some smooth muscles (urinary bladder, vas deferens, uterus... ). It was established that contractile effects of purine nucleotides on ...

  

Source: Burnstock, Geoffrey - Autonomic Neuroscience Centre, University College London

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine


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