Sentences with phrase «other human muscles»

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It's an evolutionary mystery how humans and other primates found the energy to support their large brains, but now it seems sacrificing some muscle might have helped

The numbers represent a lower limit, as Neandertals and other extinct hominins likely had more muscle mass than modern humans.

As a result, the ubiquitous barges plying the river no longer need human muscle to beat the flow and can carry more than three times as much weight — from 3,000 tons per ship to 10,000 tons of coal, cars and other goods.

If the findings translate to humans, this restoration of muscle mass could help to combat some of the effects of age - related frailty, which often lead to osteoporosis and other debilitating conditions.

In a dissection of 18 male and female Caucasian cadavers from Pittsburgh, Waller and her colleagues found that the human face has more variation in muscle than any other body component except possibly the forearm.

Humans will always need protein, the stuff of our muscles, organs and other tissues.

Other teams suggested that humans reduced muscle mass to save energy; walked and ran more efficiently; or got extra calories faster by eating a higher quality diet, cooking food to cut down on the energy spent in digestion, and sharing food.

This suggests that other species, including humans, are limited more by what our hearts can do than by how fit the rest of our muscle are at altitude.»

Yet also all other cell types in our body continually generate forces, aided by muscle - like structures present in every human cell.

Not only muscle cells, but also all other cell types continually generate forces in the human body.

«Whales and other deep - diving marine mammals can pack 10 to 20 times more myoglobin into their cells than humans can, and that allows them to «download» oxygen directly into their skeletal muscles and stay active even when they are holding their breath,» said Olson, Rice's Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.

Even before the function of the RING portion was known, others had found that defects or deletions specifically in this portion of rapsyn cause human fetuses to be stillborn, likely because of their inability to breathe, said Mei, a dramatic indicator of the domain's essential role in development of the nerve - muscle connection.

By carefully guiding the cells» choices at each fork in the road, Loh and Chen were able to generate bone cell precursors that formed human bone when transplanted into laboratory mice and beating heart muscle cells, as well as 10 other mesodermal - derived cell lineages.

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.

To assess the expression of Tie2 and other Ang / Tie signalling molecules on human pericytes, a microarray - based expression profiling of human brain pericytes (BP), placenta pericytes, pancreas pericytes (PA), lung pericytes (LP), muscle pericytes (MP) and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) was performed.

Epidemiological surveys in humans indicate that muscle aging influences the progression of several age - related diseases in other tissues.

His team applied, among others, techniques of confocal microscopy and cell sorting by flow cytometry which led to the discovery in human muscle biopsies that these myoendothelial cells are located adjacent to the walls of blood vessels.

Epidemiological surveys in humans indicate that muscle aging influences the progression of several age - related diseases in other tissues... >> MORE

The adult human heart is only half muscle; the other half is made of support cells called fibroblasts that help repair wounds and form scars around damaged tissue.

Generating mature and viable heart muscle cells from human or other animal stem cells has proven difficult for biologists.

The synapse between a neuron and a muscle — the neuromuscular junction — of a fruit fly larva turns out to be a good model for studying how the nervous system works in general, which can be applied to other organisms, including humans.

When endurance athletes train, they use up the glycogen in their muscles, but when bodybuilders train they use adenosine triphosphate (ATP) which is a whole other fuel source and also a major source of energy for most cellular functions in a human body.

The squat is a fundamental human movement pattern that involves nearly every muscle in the body and will train your core like no other exercise on earth.

While testosterone usually gets all the credit for muscle growth and other gains, human growth hormone plays a vital role in both building muscle and shedding fat and any serious bodybuilder could benefit a lot from naturally increasing its production in the body.

Generally speaking, a healthy 160 pound human male can store about 120 - 130 grams of glycogen in the liver (which is re-synthesized rapidly, and available to all cells in the body), and about 10 grams per kilogram of muscle tissue (which CAN NOT be released to other tissues - it's selfish in that regard).

HGH is one of the most important hormones the human body produces, as it controls building, repair and healing of muscle tissues, bones as well as many other cells in our body.

Just to start, the human body's muscles, skin, bones and many other parts contain significant amounts of protein.

In humans, muscles are made different than in other animals such as birds.

Pinnacle's Juiced Protein and MyoZap is based on nothing other than speculation that MyoZap will neutralize myostatin in human users, and lead to increased muscle growth.

The problem with a lot of other muscle supplements is that they are pumped full of chemical and synthetic ingredients that really are not designed to be used on the human body.

Controlling insulin levels will balance out other hormones and allow human growth hormone (HGH) to be produced naturally, so lean muscle will be gained even without exercise.

On the other hand, if you have lower human growth hormone levels than normal as a result of the normal aging process, you can become obese and be unable to burn off that excess fat and restore your muscle tone.

Through his understanding of the anatomy of the human musculoskeletal system and exercise dynamics, and also from his 50 years of experience training thousands of guys at his gym, Vince came to the conclusion that the neck press, which involves bringing the weight down to your neck, while flaring your elbows out to the sides, stimulates the fan - shaped pectoralis major muscle of the chest better than the regular bench press, or almost any other exercise for that matter.

Our human body works with the help of cells, muscles, tissues, and other bodily components like hormones.

As for training, let's first dispel the myth that the abs are some magical muscle group that's unlike any other in the human body and need to be trained higher reps than the pecs and biceps.

Humans are able to detect what others are feeling by instinctively mimicking facial expressions Because Botox paralyzes facial muscles and hinders facial expressions, it may diminish a person's ability to read the emotions of others.

Combine this extra endurance with the extra strength that you get from the addition of new muscle cells, and you are looking at the core reasons why profession athletes and bodybuilders around the world are choosing human growth hormone over any other form of anabolic supplement.

As testosterone (known for building muscle and sexual libido among other things) is very closely related to human growth hormone (called a higher level of testosterone by some sources), each helps to increase the production of the other.

Muscle tissue contains more Mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell where fatty acids (from stored fat) are sent to be burned, than any other tissue in the human body.

Various studies on rats have demonstrated that tribulus increased testosterone and sexual activity 1, 2, while other studies found that tribulus had no effect on muscle strength, body composition, exercise performance in human subjects 3, 4.

Amino acids are the building blocks of muscle and connective tissue, hormones, and metabolic enzymes (among a host of other important components that make up the human body...), and as such, are essential to recovery, health, and optimal function.

The best source for humans is from the meat of other animals, though it can be difficult to get enough tryptophan into the brain, as it is the least abundant amino acid in muscle tissue, and it has to compete with all the other more abundant aromatic amino acids for the aromatic amino acid transporter.

Revision mats included are: Unit 1 (Cells and respiration)- Cells and respiration Unit 2 (Humans as organisms)- Nutrition and digestion - Skeletal and muscle system - Gas exchange - Reproduction system and menstrual cycle - Embryo development, health and drugs Unit 3 (Plants and ecosystems)- Photosynthesis and plant reproduction - Plant fertilisation, seed formation and seed dispersal - Food chains, food webs and dependence on other organisms Unit 4 (Inheritance, variation and survival)- DNA, continuous and discontinuous variation - Natural selection, extinction and preserving species

Antidepressants, muscle relaxants, decongestants, vitamin D derivative, oral diabets treatments, and other common human drugs can all pose risks to pets, from seizures to coma to death.

Meat animals are able to build muscle, milk, and fiber by eating grass and other green food that humans can not digest.

By replacing animal and human muscle and low - density energy sources like wood, dung, and other biofuels, and low - density, intermittent wind and solar, fossil and nuclear fuels have freed people from the basic tasks of survival to devote time and bodily energy to other occupations.

During the vast majority of our species» history, all work was done by human muscles (sometimes the muscles of human beings enslaved by others).

A soft tissue injury — minor injury — is damage to the tissue, ligaments, muscles and tendons of the human body that do not cause long - term problems with work, leisure or other regular activities.