This cross section through the flight muscles of a dancer damselfly shows in blue the muscle fibers that the fly uses to flap its wings. You can also see the nerve that stimulates these muscles in red ...

This course takes integrative approaches to exploring architecture, physiology and mechanics of vertebrate skeletal muscle as the main driver of movements in organisms including humans. Combining ...

We are interested in the biogenesis of skeletal muscle stem cells and understanding the failure of these cells to maintain the skeletal musculature in neuromuscular diseases. An additional interest is ...

The overall effect of these many exercise-induced changes is to cause your muscles to get bigger. While the basic biology of ...

Muscles can only contract and relax, so they always work in pairs called antagonistic muscles. Skeletal muscle is joined to bones. Its cells contract to make bones move and joints bend. Skeletal ...

The colors you see represent the distance each muscle fiber is from the viewer – with warm colors, such as red and yellow (1), being closer and cool colors, such as blue and purple (2), being farther ...