How can muscles refer to a type of tissue or to an organ? Explain. Find and describe two examples of 2-joint muscles in either the lower or upper extremity (such as biceps femoris long head, rectus femoris, biceps brachii, gastrocnemius, etc). Explain whi...
The body contains more than 600 muscles that are classified as smooth (often internal organs and muscles we cannot move voluntarily), striated/skeletal (muscles we voluntarily control that attach to bones to move our body), and cardiac (heart muscles). The hardest working muscle in the body ...
The single-celled organism can detect, in which direction the concentration of nutrients is highest. Credit: TU Wien How do simple creatures manage to move to a specific place? Artificial intelligence and a physical model from TU Wien can now explain this. How is it possible to move...
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Rectilinear: Specialized muscles move the belly skin of asnake, propelling it forward in a straight line. This allows snakes to slip through burrows not much bigger than they are. More information:Steven J. Newman et al, Crawling without wiggling: muscular mechanisms and kinematics of rectilinear...
The transport of ions is essential for the routine maintenance of the body. For this reason cells contain specialized enzymes that act as pumps that help ions to move around and pass through boundaries.
Tooth-contact sensations are considered essential to boost jaw adductor muscles during mastication. However, no previous studies have explained the importance of the inhibitory reflex of human anterior-tooth (ANT)-contacts in mastication. Here I present
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Doctors, for example, use dynamometers to measure the force that a person's muscles can exert, which is helpful in diagnosing illness or figuring out how successfully treatments are progressing. One very common example is the hand-grip dynamometer; it has a trigger or bulb you squeeze with ...