Not exact matches
The nation boasts immense
human diversity,
with limbs and
muscles of all sizes, so race or genetic characteristics aren't a valid explanation, said Anirudh Krishna, professor at Duke University, and co-author of a 2008 paper called «Why do some countries win more Olympic medals?»
The efficiency expert is called in to show how
human muscle and mind can achieve the most work
with the least effort and in the least time.
Funny I never thought of Jesus as having a hercules style body... Just average build... He did work as a capenter and the carpenters I know have good
muscle tone... by are not body builder status, Hercules built to excess... They are just like a average farmer, strong and even in
muscle tone... Jesus's whole life was about being humble and coming from the low end of the society... he was born
with the animals in a very humble place... I do not see him as a super strong
human... but then being the son of God, he would have had super powers if he wanted them... he just did not need them...
Nate's is a large -
muscle, shovel - and - shoulder - work, dark - night - of - the - soul kind of keening that leaves him at daybreak covered
with the dust and dirt from which we
humans come, quite literally a voice crying in the desert.
Thoughts on woo: The oo sound is the loudest sound possibility, generally, for
humans, due to the resonance developed by mouth formation, and less
muscle use in mouth and throat to form, therefore, also the easiest to scream (along
with long «O» but this doesn't allow for maximum efficiency of transdiaphragmatic pressure conversion to sound projection).
Not only does it help grow and heal
muscles (we are going a
human after all), but it provides moms - to - be
with energy, all while stabilizing blood sugars and helping reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia and gestational diabetes.
Cardiac
muscle mass tissue can be an especially specialised variety of
muscle mass tissue that may be involved
with pumping blood all the way through the
human body.
On birth This article appears in the Sage Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Sage Publications, 2005 Until recently in
human history, birth has been exclusively the work of the work of women as they labor and bear down
with their uterine
muscles to push their babies from the private inner world of their wombs into the larger world of society and culture.
«Just like adults»
muscles strengthen when used over and over, the same is true
with babies,» explains Roni Cohen Leiderman, Ph.D., dean of the Mailman Segal Center for
Human Development at Nova Southeastern University, and co-author of Let's Play and Learn Together.
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Also referred to as the womb, the uterus is hollow
with a thick, muscular wall, and is considered the strongest
muscle in the
human body.
Otherwise, caregivers may be fighting a losing battle
with the strongest
muscle of the
human body.
The look of her legs is also somewhat
human, but her leg
muscles are packed onto leg bones that are relatively shorter than ours, and
with a stronger (hyperhuman!)
Like
humans, mice
with cancer experience severe
muscle wasting.
YOU won't be able to swing between buildings on strands of spider silk any time soon, but an unexpected discovery has just opened a whole new range of applications for this super-tough material: it contracts and lengthens
with changes in humidity, doing 50 times the work of
human muscle for a given mass.
ASMI researchers are involved in different fields such as biomechanics (motion analysis, which includes cadaver research, namely, the use of
human limbs to analyze anatomy, motion, and the strength of
muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones) and clinical research (tracking patients to see how successful they are returning to sport after treatment
with surgery or physical therapy).
In Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest
Human Strength (Penguin Press, 2011), Baumeister and New York Times science writer John Tierney reveal that one of our most valued abilities — selfcontrol — actually operates like a
muscle: it can be strengthened
with practice and exhausted by overuse.
Compared
with chimps,
humans have evolved weak jaw
muscles and jaw bones — possibly because social organisation reduced the need to bite as a form of attack
Using veterinary records and
muscle biopsies, the researchers found five dogs
with features that mimicked
human symptoms.
They grew these myoblasts by many folds and then put them into a supportive 3 - D scaffolding filled
with a nourishing gel that allowed them to form aligned and functioning
human muscle fibers.
«Although zebrafish look quite different from
humans, they share an astonishing 70 percent of their genetic material
with humans, including genes important for the formation of new heart
muscle,» Yin said.
«This possibility, combined
with what we already know about how microgravity affects
muscles and bones, paints a very bleak future for
human space flight unless we start to develop effective countermeasures.»
Studies in
humans have shown that age - related
muscle loss can be partially staved off
with exercise, especially weight training.
If validated in
humans, the findings would suggest that boosting sirtuin levels may help older people retain their
muscle mass
with exercise, Guarente says.
But working
with human smooth
muscle cells isolated and grown from the healthy parts of airway tissue surrounding excised tumors, Benjamin Kalbe and his colleagues applied a large number of odor molecules and watched two of them activate the
muscle cells.
In a final set of experiments, the researchers used necrostatin - 1 to treat mice
with axonal damage and hind leg weakness, a telltale sign of axonal demise similar to the
muscle weakness that occurs in the early stages of ALS in
humans.
The paper published online this month in Genetics examines a «foraging gene»
humans share in common
with the flies, which plays multiple roles and is found in similar places, such as the nervous system, in the
muscle and in fat.
In the Leg Lab, Herr and his colleagues are experimenting
with a robot driven by animal - derived
muscle tissue that burns glucose, just like
human muscle.
Specifically, the researchers generated the tissue from
human embryonic stem cells
with the resulting
muscle having significant similarities to
human heart
muscle.
Using the natural
human development process as a guide, the researchers developed ways to mature
muscle cells in the laboratory to create
muscle fibers that restore dystrophin, the protein that is missing in the
muscles of boys
with Duchenne.
Muscles from mice treated
with modified
human stem cells show
human dystrophin - producing
muscle fibers (yellow) integrated among mouse
muscle fibers (red).
These findings in murine
muscle, coupled
with a significant association between a SNP in exon 3 of the IL15RA gene and
human endurance athletes, support our hypothesis whereby IL - 15Rα has a role in defining the phenotype of fast skeletal
muscles.
Skeletal
muscle tissue also produces increased amounts of iNOS and TNF - α in obese compared
with lean rodents and
humans (21, 71).
Because myostatin normally acts to limit
muscle growth, there has been considerable interest in targeting this pathway to attempt to enhance
muscle growth in
human patients
with muscle wasting and
muscle degenerative diseases.
SNPs in the
human IL15 and IL15RA genes have been associated
with responses of skeletal
muscle to resistance training (17), baseline measures of skeletal
muscle and bone (16), and markers of the metabolic syndrome (16), suggesting a role for these genes in skeletal
muscle.
The researchers found that stability was the key for cells to make large amounts of myoglobin, which is explains why deep - diving mammals can load their
muscle cells
with far more myoglobin than
humans.
SNPs in the
human IL15 and IL15RA genes have been associated
with muscle phenotypes (16),
muscle responses to resistance training (17), metabolic syndrome (16), and obesity (18 — 20), providing additional rationale to support a role for these molecules in
muscle.
The study is entitled, «Testing for Recombinant
Human Erythropoietin in Urine: Problems Associated
with Current Anti-Doping Testing,» and was conducted by Carsten Lundby, Niels J. Achman - Andersen, Jonas J. Thomsen, Anne M. Norgaard and Paul Robach, all of the Copenhagen
Muscle Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Until now, scientists examining the causes and effects of insulin resistance have struggled
with a general lack of
human cell lines from tissues such as
muscle, fat and liver that respond significantly to insulin, Kahn says.
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Sadly only a few of these are associated
with an sufficiently extensive set of evidence such that responsible
human trials are an immediate possibility: myostatin knockout for
muscle growth and telomerase gene therapies to offset some of the declines of aging.
The key to the evolutionary success of fish — and their possible survival in future — may lie
with a molecule that they ultimately bequeathed to
humans: hemoglobin, the precious carrier of oxygen into our brain, heart,
muscles and other organs.
In mice
with heart damage similar to a heart attack in
humans, the three factors not only created new
muscle, but also improved the pumping of the heart.
Diaphragm
muscle fiber function and structure in
humans with hemidiaphragm paralysis.
Humans obviously regenerate some cell types very well, such as skin,
muscle and liver cells, but almost not at all in cells of the nervous system or
with any complex tissue systems.
Because
humans have a limited capacity for heart tissue regeneration, damaged heart
muscle is normally replaced
with a nonfunctional scar.
The scientists think this could be useful for a number of applications that need
muscle fibers, whether getting the faces of humanoid robots to move
with more
human - like expressions or getting prosthetic limbs better
muscle.
Human satellite cell cultures display numerous features of mature skeletal
muscles (1) and have been used for studies of
muscle metabolism in cultures established from patients
with type 2 diabetes and healthy control subjects (1 — 5,8,9,21,22).
After being injected
with a
muscle - preserving gene, some of these mighty rodents maintained the
muscles of youthful mice, at the
human equivalent of age 80, without exercise [source: Cromie].
The decline in skeletal
muscle function associated
with human ageing can be ascribed to an increasing number of mutations in satellite cells — the resident stem cells of skeletal
muscle.