Functionality of Disorder in Muscle Mechanics

Selenium nanoparticles role in organ systems functionality and disorder

Extensive research on the nutritional and medical application of selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) was performed in past decades. Besides nutritional values, new characteristics such as antibacterial and anticancer properties depict a bright future for high Selenium (Se) consumption in the coming years. Se is essential for the proper functioning of most of the m...

Spastic movement disorder: impaired reflex function and altered muscle mechanics.

In clinical practice, signs of exaggerated tendon tap reflexes associated with muscle hypertonia are generally thought to be responsible for spastic movement disorders. Most antispastic treatments are, therefore, directed at the reduction of reflex activity. In recent years, however, researchers have noticed a discrepancy between spasticity as measured in the clinic and functional spastic movem...

Impacts of Oxidation on Muscle Protein Functionality

Muscle and Limb Mechanics.

Understanding of the musculoskeletal system has evolved from the collection of individual phenomena in highly selected experimental preparations under highly controlled and often unphysiological conditions. At the systems level, it is now possible to construct complete and reasonably accurate models of the kinetics and energetics of realistic muscles and to combine them to understand the dynami...

Muscle - Tendon Mechanics

• Muscle fibers do not attach directly to bone, but apply forces to the skeleton via aponeurosis and tendon, which arise from a specialized region called the myotendinous junction. Here myofibrils and collagen fibers overlap, forming longitudinal infoldings. Overlapping contact increases the strength of the junction compared to end-to-end contact since cell membranes support shear loads better ...