This study aims to investigate functional disparity in the locomotor apparatus of bipedal archosaurs. We use reconstructions of hindlimb myology of extant and extinct archosaurs to generate musculoskeletal biomechanical models to test hypothesized convergence between bipedal crocodile-line archosaurs and dinosaurs. Quantitative comparison of muscle leverage supports the inference that bipedal c...

The present issue opens the thirtieth volume of Acta Myologica, and, just as people celebrate the appearance of a new century a year ahead of time, we will not wait until the end of the third decade of this journal's appearance , but will hail the first issue, that comes with an XXX printed on its cover, with a short account of the journal's history. Almost 30 years ago, two experts in neuromus...

51 Oxidative stress in denervated rat muscle Provvidenza M. Abruzzo (1), Simona Di Tullio (1), Cosetta Marchionni (1), Silvia Belia (2), Giorgio Fanò (2,3), Sandra Zampieri (4,5), Ugo Carraro (4,5), Helmut Kern (6,7), Gianluca Sgarbi (6,7), Giorgio Lenaz (8), Marina Marini (1,3) (1) Dept. Histology, Embryology, and Applied Biology, University of Bologna, Italy; (2) Dept. Basic and Applied Medic...

The tongue-bite apparatus and its associated musculoskeletal elements of the pectoral girdle and neurocranium form the structural basis of raking, a unique prey-processing behaviour in salmonid and osteoglossomorph fishes. Using a quantitative approach, the functional osteology and myology of this system were compared between representatives of each lineage, i.e. the salmonid Salvelinus fontina...

Capacity of adult neural and muscle tissues to respond to external Electrical Stimulation (ES) is the biological basis for the development and implementation of mobility impairment physiotherapy protocols and of related assistive technologies, e.g, Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES). All body tissues, however, respond to electrical stimulation and, indeed, the most successful application o...

X Stephan van der Zwaard, Cornelis J. de Ruiter, Dionne A. Noordhof, Renske Sterrenburg, Frank W. Bloemers, Jos J. de Koning, Richard T. Jaspers, and Willem J. van der Laarse Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, MOVE Research Institute Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Trauma Surgery, VU University Medical Cen...