Sentences with phrase «as voluntary muscle»

Both postural and phasic muscles are skeletal muscle, which is categorized as voluntary muscle: voluntary, as opposed to the smooth muscle your organs are made of, which is involuntary — meaning your organs continue to do their job without your conscious control or consent (even, for example, when you're not thinking about what your small intestine is doing).

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The disorder eats away at motor functions and disrupts voluntary muscles; patients usually die within three to five years of the first symptoms as they lose their ability to breathe.

The cyclists in the Montmorency tart cherry group maintained muscle function (as measured by maximum voluntary isometric contraction) and experienced a reduction in certain inflammatory responses following the simulated cycling race, compared to those consuming the placebo drink.

Perchance to Dream In 1953 Nathaniel Kleitman of the University of Chicago and his graduate student Eugene Aserinsky discovered that slumber, which had been considered a single continuous period of downtime, contains recurring periods in which the sleeper's eyes move about, heartbeat and breathing become irregular, most voluntary muscles are paralyzed and brain activity (as measured by electroencephalography) is heightened.

Such action potentials from the motor cortex of the brain, for example, are the signals sent to muscles to initiate voluntary movement, such as pointing a finger.

Beyond regaining voluntary movement, the research participants have displayed a myriad of improvements in their overall health, including the increase of muscle mass and regulation of their blood pressure, as well as reduced fatigue and transformational changes to their sense of well - being.

Topics such as the mechanisms of cell injury in normal and dystrophic muscle, compensatory muscle regeneration and hypertrophy, and the effects of various therapies or voluntary exercise on muscle repair, satellite cell activation, muscle growth, bone density and age - related atrophy are examined using a large variety of cellular, molecular and whole - animal in vivo assays of function.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as called Lou Gehrig's, disease is a rapidly progressive, fatal neurological disease that attacks the nerve cells (neurons) responsible for controlling voluntary muscles.

Diverse approaches such as multisensory integration searches, psychophysics of perception of gravitational movements, control of eye movements, interlimb coordination, muscle synergies, and locomotor rhythms are considered for the generation of voluntary movement.

There are voluntary muscles as well as involuntary.

Muscle tissue of the body primarily functions as a source of power, you flex muscles and use them in a voluntary or involuntary way to perform tasks.

The cyclists in the Montmorency tart cherry group maintained muscle function (as measured by maximum voluntary isometric contraction) and experienced a reduction in certain inflammatory responses following the simulated cycling race, compared to those consuming the placebo drink.

Every voluntary contraction starts as a signal that the brain sends down the nerves and into the muscle.

The study of electricity in muscles probably began as early as the middle of the 1600s, with the discovery of the electric ray fish and experiments using frog legs (Clarys, 1994; Reaz et al. 2006), although it was not until 1792 that it was discovered that electricity could actually produce muscle contractions (Reaz et al. 2006), and 1849, when it was found that electric potential difference (also known as voltage) could be monitored in voluntary muscle actions (Reaz et al. 2006).

The presence of different levels of muscle activity has been observed both using surface electrodes and fine wire (intramuscular electrodes) and during maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC), resistance training exercises, and normal humans movements such as gait.

The most important findings presented are as follows: (a) There was a significant increase in knee joint ROM at 2 minutes postfoam rolling (12.7 %) and 10 minutes postfoam rolling (10.3 %) of the quadriceps muscles, (b) there was no significant changes in voluntary or evoked muscle properties after foam rolling, and (c) after foam rolling, the negative correlation between ROM and force production no longer existed.

As the fetal head passes into the pelvis, its pressure causes voluntary straining using the abdominal muscles.

C.M. did not show typical signs of maximum voluntary efforts such as changes in posture or use of ancillary muscles;

Also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS disease is responsible for the gradual deterioration of voluntary muscle control which will affect behaviors such as chewing, walking, breathing and talking.