Muscle (from Latin musculus, diminutive of mus "mouse"[1]) is contractile tissue of the body and is derived from the mesodermal layer of embryonic germ cells.
Muscles
Animals use muscles to convert the chemical energy of ATP into mechanical work. Three different kinds of muscles are found in vertebrate animals ...
muscles, abdominal
A large group of muscles in the front of the abdomen that assists in the regular breathing movement and supports the muscles of the spine while lifting and keeping abdominal organs such as the intestines in place.
Skeletal muscles are usually attached to bones. They are often called striated muscles, because of their striated, or striped appearance. The cells of skeletal muscles can be very long, sometimes over 30 cm, and can contain many different nuclei.
Muscles of the Shoulder Girdle and Arm."The Trapezius and Sternocleidomastoideus arise from a common premuscle mass in the occipital region just caudal to the last branchial arch; ...
smooth muscle
one whose cells are not striated
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
Two muscles or muscle groups that flank a bone and move it in opposite directions.
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muscle -- Bundle of contractile cells which allow animals to move. Muscles must act against a skeleton to effect movement.
mycorrhizae -- Symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots or rhizoids of a plant. More info?
Muscle damage
Adult stem cells are also apparently able to repair muscle damaged after heart attacks. Heart attacks are due to the coronary artery being blocked, starving tissue of oxygen and nutrients.
muscle fiber
Muscle cell; a long, cylindrical, multinucleated cell containing numerous myofibrils, which is capable of contraction when stimulated.
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muscle fibers Long, multinucleated cells found in skeletal muscles; made up of myofibrils. One of the four major groups of vertebrate cell/tissue types. Muscle cells contract/relax, allowing movement of and/or within the animal.
smooth muscle Muscle that lacks striations; found around circulatory system vessels and in the walls of such organs as the stomach, intestines, and bladder.
smooth muscle
A type of muscle lacking the striations of skeletal and cardiac muscle because of the uniform distribution of myosin filaments in the cell.
Muscle cells with few mitochondria don't start consuming O2 until they are out of ATP and ADP concentration is high.
muscle tissue The type of tissue that allows movement. The three kinds are skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Tissue made of bundles of long cells called muscle fibers.
muscleL. musculus = a contractile organ.
The muscles of the stomach participate in mechanical digestion by churning the food "bolus.
Flexor a muscle which bends a joint
(flex = bend‚ pliant)
Folic Acid a B vitamin noted for its prevention of neural tube defects if taken in early pregnancy
(foli = a leaf) ...
Becker muscular dystrophy -- X-linked condition characterized by progressive muscle weakness and wasting; manifests later in life with progression less severe than Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
A protein produced in the pituitary gland that stimulates the liver to produce somatomedins, which stimulate growth of bone and muscle. Hybrid. The offspring of two parents differing in at least one genetic characteristic (trait).
Ataxia telangiectasia (AT; progressive brain disorder resulting in loss of muscle control and cancers)
Gaucher disease (GD; enlarged liver and spleen, bone degeneration) ...
The problems happen when the red cell containing hemoglobin S gets into the muscles or into your brain and discharges the oxygen.
This structure acts as both muscle and skeleton, for movement and stability. The long fibers of the cytoskeleton are polymers of subunits.
Spinal cord motor neurons control voluntary movement by relaying messages that arrive from upper brain centres to the innervated muscles.
Sarcomas result from changes in muscle, bone, fat, or connective tissue.
Leukemia results from malignant white blood cells.
Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system cells that derive from bone marrow.
Therefore, in some specialized cells, such as those that are occupied chiefly in lipid and carbohydrate metabolism (brain and muscle) or detoxification (liver), ...
You will also find many microfilaments in muscle tissue. They are called myofibrils when you find them in muscles. The two proteins myosin and actin work together to help the muscle cells relax and contract.
Their jaw is closed by three muscles: the external, posterior and internal adductor. Each reptile tooth is single cusped. Mammals have powerful jaws with differentiated teeth. Many of these teeth, such as the molars, are multi-cusped.
The DNA is similar in every cell of the body, but depending on the specific cell type, some genes may be turned on or off - that's why a liver cell is different from a muscle cell, and a muscle cell is different from a fat cell.
[Gr. epi - on, upon; Gr. myo - muscle; Gr. kardia - heart] The outer, thicker layer of the heart rudiment which arises from splanchnic mesoderm and fuses with the endocardium to form the heart wall.
Creatine phosphate (phosphocreatine) In muscle, a compound with a high phosphoryl transfer potential that is used to regenerate ATP from ADP during the initial seconds of muscle contraction.
myogenesis - differentiation of skeletal muscle.
myxamoeba - in Dictyostelium discoideum, the solitary haploid cell of the vegetative life cycle that lives on bacteria and reproduces by binary fission until the food supply is exhausted.
Examples include muscle tissue, nervous system tissue (including the brain, spinal cord, and nerves), and connective tissue (including ligaments, tendons, bones, and fat). Organs are made up of tissues.
serotonin - increase vascular permeability and smooth muscle contraction. Originates from platelets ...
poikilothermic - largely dependant upon external environment for determining body temperature; can be aided by basking, seeking shade, flexing wing muscles to generate internal heat, clustering together in a colony, and other individual and ...
Human growth hormone (HGH, somatotrophin). A protein produced in the pituitary gland that stimulates the liver to produce somatomedins, which stimulate growth of bone and muscle.
 See also: Trans, Human, Cells, Organ, Blood
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