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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Biodegradable and Biocompatible Functional Polymers for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Biodegradable and biocompatible functional polymers integrate electrical, mechanical, and stimuli‐responsive functionalities while enabling programmed degradation under physiological conditions. This review introduces recent advances in conductive, shape‐memory, self‐healing, photocurable, and adhesive polymer systems, emphasizing material design ...
Won Bae Han, Shuvra Mondal, Sungkeun Han, Chan‐Hwi Eom, Venkata Ramesh Naganaboina, Suk‐Won Hwang   +5 more
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Passive mechanical features of single fibers from human muscle biopsies – effects of storage

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2008
Background The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of storage of human muscle biopsies on passive mechanical properties. Methods Stress-strain analysis accompanied by laser diffraction assisted sarcomere length measurement was performed ...
Runesson Eva, Einarsson Fredrik, Fridén Jan   +2 more
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Coordinated Architectural and Chemical Reinforcement in the Crushing Mandible of a Soldier Termite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The crushing mandible of a soldier termite withstands substantial biting loads despite lacking mineral. Its cuticle is partitioned: convex teeth pair hardness and zinc enrichment with aligned chitin fibers for contact durability, while stiffer concave regions between teeth carry bending loads.
Andrew Tran Nguyen, Patryk Wąsik, Juan Fernando Cucuyame Morales, Marie Kate Palau, Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas, Phani Saketh Dasika, Jin Hee Kim, Radhika Laxminarayana, Eric Hintsala, Greta Chang, Junzhi Liao, Lizhi Sun, Nathan Lord, Atsushi Arakaki, Paul Bardunias, Pablo Zavattieri, David Kisailus   +16 more
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Effect of the Lipoxygenase Inhibitor Baicalein on Muscles in Ovariectomized Rats

Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, 2016
Sarcopenia, a loss of muscle mass accompanying osteoporosis, leads to falls and fall-related injuries. Baicalein, as a phytochemical agent, has an antioxidative and anti-inflammatory effect in muscle.
D. Saul, J. H. Kling, R. L. Kosinsky, D. B. Hoffmann, M. Komrakova, M. Wicke, B. Menger, S. Sehmisch   +7 more
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Enhanced exercise and regenerative capacity in a mouse model that violates size constraints of oxidative muscle fibres

eLife, 2016
A central tenet of skeletal muscle biology is the existence of an inverse relationship between the oxidative fibre capacity and its size. However, robustness of this relationship is unknown. We show that superimposition of Estrogen-related receptor gamma
Saleh Omairi, Antonios Matsakas, Hans Degens, Oliver Kretz, Kenth-Arne Hansson, Andreas Våvang Solbrå, Jo C Bruusgaard, Barbara Joch, Roberta Sartori, Natasa Giallourou, Robert Mitchell, Henry Collins-Hooper, Keith Foster, Arja Pasternack, Olli Ritvos, Marco Sandri, Vihang Narkar, Jonathan R Swann, Tobias B Huber, Ketan Patel   +19 more
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2D Skeletal Muscle Thin Film Actuators Enhance Efficiency of Biohybrid Robots

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
2D skeletal muscle thin film actuators generate millinewton‐scale forces and millimeter‐scale strokes while remaining functional for over 30 days. Their force density is 20‐fold higher than 3D skeletal muscle actuators, enabling multi‐fin robots with tunable speed and multidirectional steering.
Maheera Bawa, Arielle Berman, Laura Schwendeman, Ferdows Afghah, Seanbiron Johnson, Ritu Raman   +5 more
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Diffusion and physical constraints limit oxidative capacity, capillary supply and size of muscle fibres in mice and humans

Experimental Physiology
It has been suggested that angiogenesis during skeletal muscle fibre hypertrophy allows escape from the ‘size constraint’, which is the inverse relationship between oxidative capacity and muscle fibre cross‐sectional area (FCSA).
Hans Degens, Guy A. M. Messa, Jason Tallis, Alessandra Bosutti, Tomas Venckunas, Ismail Adeniran, Rob C. I. Wüst, Paul W. Hendrickse   +7 more
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EFFECT OF REARING SYSTEM ON THE MUSCLE FIBRE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHICKEN BREEDS WITH DIFFERENT GROWTH SPEED

Italian Journal of Food Safety, 2009
The study was conducted to evaluate the influence of the rearing system on the muscle fibre characteristics of two meat chicken breeds such as the Ross and the Livorno characterized by extremely fast and extremely slow growth speed respectively.
P. Avellini, A. Cioffi, D. Ranucci, D Miraglia, R. Mammoli, R. Branciari   +5 more
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The expression of the skeletal muscle force–length relationship in vivo: A simulation study [PDF]

, 2010
The force-length relationship is one of the most important mechanical characteristics of skeletal muscle in humans and animals. For a physiologically realistic joint range of motion and therefore range of muscle fibre lengths only part of the force ...
Challis, John H., Winter, Samantha L.
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