leg muscles
Molecular plasticity and functional enhancements of leg muscles in response to hypergravity in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
... skeletal muscles. To test this general hypothesis, we focused on Drosophila leg skeletal ...Drosophila leg muscles serve to support body weight under non-flying conditions, and are considered ...
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Spontaneous locomotor activity in late stage chicken embryos is modified by stretch of leg muscles
... Several studies have charted the anatomical development of proprioceptor end organs and their spinal circuits but little is known about the physiological or behavioral function of the proprioceptive system during ...
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Evaluating the Fatigue Rate of Lower Leg Muscles during Prolonged Standing: A Comparison between Stable and Unstable Footwear
... lower leg muscles fatigue, potentially due to more dynamic/active standing posture compared to standing on stable shoe (static ...dominant leg muscles, and (5) takin into account other ...
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Age related changes in the effects of strength training on lower leg muscles in healthy individuals measured using MRI
... We wish to know how does restoration after disuse compare with the effects of training on normal individ- uals from their normal baseline? In parallel with the study of patients, 4 we investigated the ability of healthy ...
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Perturbation of the motor system in freely walking cockroaches II The timing of motor activity in leg muscles after amputation of a middle leg
... Timing between amputee and intact legs Summary Figs 6, 8 and individual Figs 7, 9 plots for the phases of bursts in the amputated stump relative to those in the intact legs are shown in [r] ...
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Energy absorption during running by leg muscles in a cockroach
... relative leg spring stiffness are indistinguishable from data on bipedal runners and hoppers and on quadrupedal trotters (Blickhan and Full, ...one leg of a biped or two legs of a quadruped, each leg ...
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Perturbation of the motor system in freely walking cockroaches I Rear leg amputation and the timing of motor activity in leg muscles
... In addition to the specific effects of rear and middle leg amputation, the data suggest that, during slow walking, sensory input plays a strong role in the timing of motor bursts in ipsi[r] ...
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The Electrical Constants of the Fibres from Two Leg Muscles of the Locust Schistocerca Gregaria
... This was done in a retractor unguis fibre the cable constants of which had been determined by injection of rectangular current pulses Fig.. 4, upper right inset.[r] ...
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Design of Wearable Chair
... essentially a "chair" which is worn like an exoskeleton, enabling clients to walk or keep running with the gadget while they work, this chair encourages clients to rest their leg muscles by ...
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The effect of thermal insulation pads on heat flux, physical effort and perceived exertion during endurance exercise in cool environments
... working muscles during endurance exercise in the cold without impairing overall body-heat ...of leg muscles failed to significantly affect parameters reflecting physical effort or perceived ...
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Value of muscle magnetic resonance imaging in the differential diagnosis of muscular dystrophies related to the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex
... lower leg level (Additional file 7: Figure S3), we did not observe any specific pattern of muscle involvement that was consistent within even one subtype of DGC-related muscular ...lower leg muscles ...
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Contribution of non-extensor muscles of the leg to maximal-effort countermovement jumping
... studies, leg muscles that have a primary function of leg extension ...other leg muscles that have a different primary function ..."non-extensor muscles") often were not ...
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Coordinated development of muscles and tendons of the Drosophila leg
... Drosophila muscles is that they arise from twi-expressing non-differentiated ...cells. Leg muscles originate from a restricted subpopulation of such cells (5-10 myoblasts) associated with the ...
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In vivo muscle protein synthesis rates in the American lobster Homarus americanus during the moult cycle and in response to 20 hydroxyecdysone
... to leg muscles, claw muscles have been shown in some crustaceans to undergo a massive atrophy during premoult to allow the remaining claw muscle to be pulled through the narrow basi-ischium joint ...
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Influence of a portable audio-biofeedback device on structural properties of postural sway
... Using the proposed ABF device, all healthy subjects included in this study could sway less when standing in a particularly challenging condition, with vision unavaila- ble and somatosensation partly unreliable. All ...
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Myofibrillar protein isoform expression is correlated with synaptic efficacy in slow fibres of the claw and leg opener muscles of crayfish and lobster
... Although the opener muscle in the claws of the crayfish lacked the proximal tuft of muscle fibres present in the walking legs, there were still regional differences in the EPSP amplitude and STF (Fig. 2; Table 2). Since ...
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Common and specific inhibitory motor neurons innervate the intersegmental muscles in the locust thorax
... muscles are lost in the course of segment fusion (tagmatisation). The sturdy thoracic tagma of locusts has quite obviously entailed such muscle loss; compare, for instance, the thoracic muscle endowment of locusts ...
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Rheb, an activator of target of rapamycin, in the blackback land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis: cloning and effects of molting and unweighting on expression in skeletal muscle
... Molt-induced claw muscle atrophy in decapod crustaceans facilitates exuviation and is coordinated by ecdysteroid hormones. There is a 4-fold reduction in mass accompanied by remodeling of the contractile apparatus, which ...
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The transverse abdominal muscle is excessively active during active straight leg raising in pregnancy related posterior pelvic girdle pain: an observational study
... Outcome measure was the percentage change in TrA thickness during ASLR with respect to rest. Measure- ment of TrA thickness was performed by means of RUSI (2D mode) with a 7.5 MHz linear probe of 6 cm (Honda-Hs-2000). ...
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Mechanics of cuticular elastic energy storage in leg joints lacking extensor muscles in arachnids
... during leg cycling, so that an assumption of bulk fluid flow is ...the leg diameters of our experimental animals, Eremopus would have about 50 times the viscous drag of Aphonopelma and Leiobunum would have ...
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