Human lower leg muscles grow asynchronously. [PDF]
J Anat, 2023 Muscle volume must increase substantially during childhood growth to generate the power required to propel the growing body. One unresolved but fundamental question about childhood muscle growth is whether muscles grow at equal rates; that is, if muscles
Chow BVY +12 more
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Deep learning for automatic segmentation of thigh and leg muscles. [PDF]
MAGMA, 2022 Objective In this study we address the automatic segmentation of selected muscles of the thigh and leg through a supervised deep learning approach.
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Magnetic Resonance Assessment of Hypertrophic and Pseudo-Hypertrophic Changes in Lower Leg Muscles of Boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Their Relationship to Functional Measurements. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The primary objectives of this study were to evaluate contractile and non-contractile content of lower leg muscles of boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and determine the relationships between non-contractile content and functional abilities ...
Ravneet S Vohra +10 more
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The repeatability of bilateral diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in the upper leg muscles of healthy adults. [PDF]
Eur Radiol, 2020 Objectives Assessment of the repeatability of diffusion parameter estimations in the upper leg muscles of healthy adults over the time course of 2 weeks, from a simultaneous bilateral upper leg DTI measurement.
Monte JR +7 more
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Effect of Aging on Muscle-Pump Baroreflex of Individual Leg Muscles During Standing. [PDF]
Front Physiol, 2019 Activation of leg muscles is an important component in the regulation of blood pressure during standing, failure of which could result in syncope and falls.
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2011 One-legged dynamic knee-extension exercise (DKE) is a widely used model to study the local cardiovascular and metabolic responses to exercise of the quadriceps muscles.
Kari eKalliokoski +8 more
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The fatty acid profile and the quality of breast and leg muscles in female and male pearl gray guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) [PDF]
Poultry Science: The aim of this study was to evaluate the fatty acid (FA) profile and the quality of breast and leg muscles in male and female guinea fowl. In comparison with leg muscles, breast muscles had a higher content of dry matter and total protein, and ...
Katarzyna Śmiecińska +2 more
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Shaping leg muscles in Drosophila: role of ladybird, a conserved regulator of appendicular myogenesis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2006 Legs are locomotor appendages used by a variety of evolutionarily distant vertebrates and invertebrates. The primary biological leg function, locomotion, requires the formation of a specialised appendicular musculature.
Tariq Maqbool +7 more
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Agriculture, 2023 The aim of this research is to compare the carcass composition and meat quality characteristics of spent Cobb 500 and Ross 308 broiler breeders. A total of 28 carcasses were evaluated—7 female and 7 male carcasses from each genotype.
Marcin Wegner +3 more
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Muscle leg strength and muscule arm strength on the power lay-up abillity
Sriwijaya Journal of Sport, 2022 The aims of this study were (1) to determine the relationship between leg muscles and power lay-up ability; (2) to determine the relationship between arm muscles and power lay-up ability; and (3) knowing the relationship between leg and arm muscles with ...
Helen Umi Mega Rahayu +1 more
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