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The Muscular System
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2024
The muscular system is essential to the body's overall structure and function, playing a crucial role in movement, stability, and internal processes. It consists of three distinct types of muscle tissue: the skeletal, the smooth, and the cardiac muscles. Skeletal Muscles: These muscles are under our conscious control and enable movement. They are attached to bones by tendons, and their contraction and relaxation allow us to move. Additionally, they generate heat during physical activity,...
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Microfluidic Genipin Deposition Technique for Extended Culture of Micropatterned Vascular Muscular Thin Films
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2015
We present a method for microfluidic deposition of patterned genipin and fibronectin on PDMS substrates, allowing extended viability of vascular smooth muscle cell-dense tissues. This tissue fabrication method is combined with previous vascular muscular thin film technology to measure vascular contractility over disease-relevant time courses.
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Glycan Profiling of Plant Cell Wall Polymers using Microarrays
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2012
A technique called Comprehensive Microarray Polymer Profiling (CoMPP) for the characterisation of plant cell wall glycans is described. This method combines the specificity of monoclonal antibodies directed to defined glycan-epitopes with a miniature microarray analytical platform allowing screening of glycan occurrence in a broad range of biological contexts.
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Battery of Behavioral Tests Assessing General Locomotion, Muscular Strength, and Coordination in Mice
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2018
Behavioral testing is used in pre-clinical trials to assess the phenotypic effects of a disease or treatment on an animal's wellbeing. In order to globally assess motor functioning, we selected tests for general locomotion, muscular strength, and coordination: the open field test, the mesh test, and the rotarod test, respectively.
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A Simple and Low-cost Assay for Measuring Ambulation in Mouse Models of Muscular Dystrophy
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2017
This protocol describes a flexible, low-cost system for measuring mouse ambulation in an open field activity assay. We show that a 6-minute ambulation assay based on this system detects a decrease in voluntary movement in mdx mice, and accurately distinguishes improvement in a muscle-specific rescue of these animals.
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Contraction occurs when actin and myosin interact within smooth muscle cells, shortening the cells and changing the surrounding organ wall. Signals from autonomic nerves, hormones, or local chemical cues can initiate or modify this interaction. The resulting force alters the organ’s shape or pressure, enabling contents to move or allowing a tubular structure to regulate flow.
These three types of signals provide different sources of regulation for smooth muscle contraction. Autonomic nerve signals connect activity to the nervous system, hormones provide chemical control, and local cues allow nearby conditions to influence the tissue. Their effects determine when contraction occurs and help match muscular wall behavior to transport, pressure, or flow requirements.
Individual contractions become functionally useful when activity is coordinated across the wall. Sequential contractions can propel material through a tubular organ as peristalsis, whereas other patterns can change the diameter of a vessel. Thus, coordination determines whether muscular activity produces movement through an organ or regulates passage and flow within it.
When smooth muscle cells contract, the surrounding wall can alter the shape and internal pressure of a hollow organ or tubular structure. The magnitude and coordination of contraction influence how effectively contents are moved or flow is controlled. This mechanical relationship connects cellular actin-myosin activity with whole-organ functions such as transport and regulation.
Important examples include the digestive tract, blood vessels, urinary bladder, and reproductive system. In the digestive tract, coordinated activity supports movement of contents; in blood vessels, contraction can regulate diameter. The bladder and reproductive system provide additional contexts in which muscular wall activity contributes to organ function and controlled transport.
In blood vessels, contraction of the muscular wall changes the vessel’s diameter. This provides a mechanism for regulating flow through the tubular structure rather than moving solid or liquid contents along a tract. Studying this activity helps connect smooth muscle signaling and contraction with the broader biological control of circulation.
Muscular wall function links cellular contraction with the movement of contents, regulation of flow, and pressure changes in organs. If contraction or coordination is altered, normal transport or organ activity may be affected. For this reason, studying muscular walls helps researchers examine disorders involving motility, circulation, or contractility across several organ systems.