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Non-invasive Skeletal Muscle Quantification in Small Animals Using Micro-computed Tomography
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2024
This protocol uses micro-computed tomography to enable the cost-effective quantification of lean mass, including skeletal muscle and visceral tissue, adipose tissue, and skeletal tissue in small animals. It distinguishes between lean and adipose tissue, which offers significant advantages for biomedical research, particularly in translational research in small animals.
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Mitochondrial Isolation from Skeletal Muscle
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2011
This protocol describes a procedure to study the respiration of mitochondria isolated from skeletal muscles. This method was adapted from Scorrano et al. (2007). The mitochondrial isolation procedure requires about 2 hours. The mitochondrial respiration can be completed in about 1 hour.
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Adult and Embryonic Skeletal Muscle Microexplant Culture and Isolation of Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells
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2010
The micro-dissected explants technique is a robust and reliable method for isolating proliferative skeletal muscle cells from juvenile, adult or embryonic muscles as a source of skeletal muscle stem cells. Uniquely, these cells have been clonally derived to produce skeletal muscle stem cell lines used for in vivo transplantation.
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Computer-Generated Animal Model Stimuli
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2007
Computer-generated stimuli using the Jacky dragon as a model.
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Classification of Skeletal Muscle Fibers
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2019
Skeletal muscles continuously produce ATP to provide the energy that enables muscle contractions. Skeletal muscle fibers can be categorized into three types based on differences in their contraction speed and how they produce ATP, as well as physical differences related to these factors. Most human muscles contain all three muscle fiber types, albeit in varying proportions. Slow-Twitch Muscle Fibers Slow oxidative, muscle fibers appear red due to large numbers of capillaries and high levels of...
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Hierarchical joints organize the virtual skeleton so that movement at one level can influence connected parts of the structure. A change in a higher joint can therefore affect the position or orientation of related joints, preserving coordinated relationships during motion. In biological models, this arrangement helps represent how linked skeletal regions contribute to whole-body locomotion or posture.
Joint rotations alter the orientation of an articulated part, whereas translations change its position. These two controls can represent different aspects of movement within a skeletal model, including how a body segment turns or shifts. Combining them allows researchers to examine movement patterns more precisely when visualizing anatomy, locomotion, or biomechanical behavior.
Skinning connects the virtual skeleton to an attached surface so that skeletal changes produce visible deformation. Without this connection, joint adjustments would not clearly show how the represented body or anatomical form moves. In biological visualization, skinning makes joint-driven motion easier to interpret by linking internal skeletal structure with the appearance of the moving surface.
A typical workflow establishes the articulated skeletal framework, defines its joint relationships, attaches a surface through skinning, and then applies joint rotations or translations. The resulting motion can be compared with the intended anatomical or biomechanical behavior. This sequence supports visual models of skeletal anatomy, locomotion, posture, and musculoskeletal function.
By changing joint movements within a structured model, researchers can visualize how connected skeletal parts contribute to gait and posture. The animation provides a way to examine coordinated movement rather than viewing each joint in isolation. This can clarify relationships between skeletal organization and observed locomotor patterns in human or animal movement studies.
Skeletal animation is useful when a study needs to connect joint structure with observed movement. Applications described for biology include educational anatomical models, motion analysis, and simulations of human or animal movement. It can also support investigation of musculoskeletal function by making skeletal relationships and movement patterns visible in a coordinated representation.