This section summarises some of the available literature concerning the operation of muscles and nerves. All skeletal muscles comprise groups or bundles of smaller muscle fibres; these muscle fibres are of many different shapes and sizes depending on the muscle in question. Cylindrical gamma shaped muscle fibres are comparatively short compared with, say, flagelliform or laneolate muscle fibres...

Insect muscle fibres can be classed as either phasic or tonic according to their response to potassium depolarization. The phasic fibres contract only transiently during prolonged potassium depolarization, whereas the tonic fibres give a sustained contracture. The extensor tibiae muscle in the metathoracic leg of the locust contains both tonic (T/et) and phasic (P/et) fibres; the electrical, me...

As a sequel to \cite{Licollapsing}, we study Calabi-Yau metrics collapsing along holomorphic fibration over Riemann surface. Assuming at worst canonical singular fibres, prove uniform diameter bound for all fibres in the suitable rescaling. This has consequences on geometry around fibres.

Using a range of electrophysiological techniques, it has been possible to demonstrate impaired function in smaller calibre motor fibres and in distal large cutaneous sensory nerve fibres in both alcoholic patients without neuropathy and in those alcoholics with clinical manifestations of peripheral nerve disease. Evidence of more proximal involvement of Ia sensory fibres was obtained, but in th...

Samples of rockwool and glass fibre were compared with chrysotile fibres for their capacity to hydroxylate 2-deoxyguanosine to 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine, a reaction that is mediated by formation of hydroxyl radicals. All three fibres produced 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine in the absence of H2O2. The chrysotile fibres were most potent and produced about ten times more of the modified nucleoside than roc...