When muscle cells are viewed under the microscope, one can see that they contain a striped pattern (striations). This pattern is formed by a series of basic units called sarcomeres that are ...

The insertion is the other end of the muscle that is attached to the bone which moves. Muscular contractions are defined as the change in the length of the muscle under contraction. Muscles ...

Isotonic contractions – these occur when a muscle contracts and changes length and there are two types: Isotonic concentric contraction – this involves the muscle shortening. The origin and ...

This course takes integrative approaches to exploring architecture, physiology and mechanics of vertebrate skeletal muscle ... how cell-level phenomena govern contraction, how the nervous system ...

Muscle contraction and tendon action. Ecological diversification ... We combine tools from biomechanics, muscle physiology, and functional morphology into a research program that is relevant to ...

Climbing is physiologically unique in requiring sustained and intermittent isometric forearm muscle contractions for upward propulsion. The determinants of climbing performance are not clear but may ...

However, the effect of caffeine on neural activation and maximal voluntary contraction strength during different contraction ... voluntary activation of quadriceps femoris. Journal of applied ...