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

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 ...

Skeletal muscle cells are long and thin and can contain multiple nuclei. These cells fuse end to end with their neighbors to form myotubes, which then collectively form muscle fibers. When bundled ...

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 ...

Muscle sliding filaments. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 9, s6–s7 (2008) doi:10.1038/nrm2581. Goody, R. S. The missing link in the muscle cross-bridge cycle. Nature Structural Molecular ...