The Energy of Muscle Contraction. I. Tissue Force and Deformation During Fixed-End Contractions
Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 During contraction the energy of muscle tissue increases due to energy from the hydrolysis of ATP. This energy is distributed across the tissue as strain-energy potentials in the contractile elements, strain-energy potential from the 3D deformation of ...
James M. Wakeling +8 more
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Temporal effects of mechanical loading on deformation-induced damage in skeletal muscle tissue [PDF]
, 2010 Mechanical loading of soft tissues covering bony prominences can cause skeletal muscle damage, ultimately resulting in a severe pressure ulcer termed deep tissue injury.
S. Loerakker +28 more
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Notch signaling pathway in human vascular smooth muscle cell differentiation [PDF]
, 2006 Notch receptor-ligand interactions are a highly conserved mechanism, originally described in developmental studies using Drosophilae, that regulate inter-cell communication and dictate, in part, vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) fate in response to ...
Scheller, Agnieszka
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Stretching Your Energetic Budget: How Tendon Compliance Affects the Metabolic Cost of Running. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Muscles attach to bones via tendons that stretch and recoil, affecting muscle force generation and metabolic energy consumption. In this study, we investigated the effect of tendon compliance on the metabolic cost of running using a full-body ...
Thomas K Uchida +3 more
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Noninvasive Estimation of Myosin Heavy Chain Composition in Human Skeletal Muscle [PDF]
, 2011 Purpose: Information on muscle fiber type composition is of great importance in muscle physiology and athletic performance. Because there are only a few techniques available that noninvasively and accurately provide an estimate of muscle fiber type ...
Rittweger, Jörn +17 more
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Imaging displacement and strain in the medial gastrocnemius muscle during ankle-joint motion using 2D-ciné DENSE MRI [PDF]
, 2011 Skeletal muscle structure has been defined on both macro and microscopic levels by gross dissection, light- and electron-microscopy. The basic physiological building blocks involve the electromechanical coupling between interlinking actin and myosin ...
Lawson, Andrew James
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The axial musculature of fishes has historically been characterized as the powerhouse for explosive swimming behaviors. However, recent studies show that some fish also use their ‘swimming’ muscles to generate over 90% of the power for suction feeding ...
Yordano E. Jimenez +2 more
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Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingPurposeThe aim of this pilot study was to analyze the potential financial loss and a range of potential risk factors for hamstring muscle injuries in elite Brazilian soccer.MethodsThirty-four male players (age: 25 ± 6 years; stature: 180 ± 8 cm; body ...
Otaviano Oliveira-Júnior +9 more
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Relationships among hamstring muscle optimal length and hamstring flexibility and strength
Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2017 Background: Hamstring muscle strain injury (hamstring injury) due to excessive muscle strain is one of the most common injuries in sports. The relationships among hamstring muscle optimal lengths and hamstring flexibility and strength were unknown, which
Xianglin Wan +4 more
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Possible factors related to increased strain of the iliotibial band in recreational female runners
Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine, 2020 Increased strain of the iliotibial band (ITB) is a key factor of ITBS aggravation. There are several internal risk factors contributing to increased ITB strain; gender (female), knee malalignment (genu varum > genu valgus), deteriorated muscle ...
Da Yoon Kim +4 more
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