In a serendipitous discovery, UC San Diego researchers using cryo-EM technology captured the first visualizations of the 3-D structure of the muscle acetylcholine receptor in fetal and adult muscles.

The connections between the nervous system and muscles develop differently across the kingdom of life. It takes newborn humans roughly a year to develop the proper muscular systems that support the ...

Muscle contraction is the tightening, shortening, or lengthening of muscles when you do some activity. It can happen when you hold or pick up something, or when you stretch or exercise with weights.

WE have recently carried out some experiments on the form of the contraction given by the gastrocnemius muscle of a winter frog 1 in response to a single electrical stimulus. In certain circumstances, ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Drugs that act on calmodulin and protein kinase C (PKC) were investigated in the filariid Acanthocheilonema viteae. The filariid was slit open ...

A concentric contraction is a type of muscle activation that causes tension on your muscle as it shortens. As your muscle shortens, it generates enough force to move an object. This is the most ...