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Comparative biomechanics of movement
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2022) 225 (Suppl_1): jeb243254.
Published: 8 March 2022
...James R. Usherwood ABSTRACT Considerable attention has been given to the spring-like behaviour of stretching and recoiling tendons, and how this can reduce the work demanded from muscle for a given loss–return cycling of mechanical energy during high-speed locomotion. However, even completely...
Includes: Supplementary data
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2017) 220 (5): 796–806.
Published: 1 March 2017
..., including a range of perch diameters, pervades arboreal habitats. Moving on different substrate diameters requires considerable alteration of body and limb posture, probably causing significant shifts in the lengths of the muscle–tendon units powering locomotion. Thus, how substrate shape impacts in vivo...
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2016) 219 (2): 266–275.
Published: 1 January 2016
... mechanisms identified so far rely primarily on in-series tendons, but many structures within muscles exhibit spring-like properties. Actomyosin cross-bridges, actin and myosin filaments, titin, and the connective tissue scaffolding of the extracellular matrix all have the potential to store and recover...
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2014) 217 (24): 4372–4378.
Published: 15 December 2014
... and revising the article. Competing interests The authors declare no competing financial interests. 30 6 2014 27 10 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Catch mechanism Muscle Frog Catapult Tendon Elastic energy storage is used by a wide...
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2012) 215 (20): 3552–3558.
Published: 15 October 2012
...Andrew Matson; Nicolai Konow; Samuel Miller; Pernille P. Konow; Thomas J. Roberts SUMMARY The material properties of a tendon affect its ability to store and return elastic energy, resist damage, provide mechanical feedback and amplify or attenuate muscle power. While the structural properties...
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2011) 214 (3): 353–361.
Published: 1 February 2011
...Thomas J. Roberts; Emanuel Azizi Summary The muscles that power vertebrate locomotion are associated with springy tissues, both within muscle and in connective tissue elements such as tendons. These springs share in common the same simple action: they stretch and store elastic strain energy when...
Journal Articles
Journal:
Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2008) 211 (20): 3266–3271.
Published: 15 October 2008
.... This variation might be due to variation in the storage and reutilization of elastic energy in tendons. Using a simple musculoskeletal model, it was predicted that the amount of energy stored in a tendon during a given movement depends more critically on moment arm than on mechanical properties of the tendon...
Journal Articles
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2007) 210 (23): 4159–4168.
Published: 1 December 2007
...P. D. Hoang; R. D. Herbert; G. Todd; R. B. Gorman; S. C. Gandevia SUMMARY This study provides the first in vivo measures of the passive length–tension properties of relaxed human muscle fascicles and their tendons. A new method was used to derive passive length–tension properties of human...
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Journal:
Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2006) 209 (23): 4622–4637.
Published: 1 December 2006
..., the lever arm of the trochanteral levator tendon is similar over the range of joint movements and is exceeded by that of the depressor only after 40° of depression. Three prominent arrays of hairs on the trochantin, coxa and trochanter are appropriately positioned to act as proprioceptors signalling key...
Journal Articles
Journal:
Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2005) 208 (14): 2625–2631.
Published: 15 July 2005
... of supporting relatively more mass with relatively smaller muscle, tendon and bone cross-sectional areas. To some extent, larger animals offset their intrinsic disadvantage for mass-specific force production by adopting a more favourable limb mechanical advantage for applying ground force. Their more erect...
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2003) 206 (19): 3437–3445.
Published: 1 October 2003
...Ryan J. Monti; Roland R. Roy; Hui Zhong; V. R. Edgerton SUMMARY The in vitro mechanical properties of tendons are well described,whereas little data exist for conditions mimicking those found in vivo . Descriptions of the in situ mechanical properties of aponeuroses are more common, but the results...
Journal Articles
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2003) 206 (15): 2567–2580.
Published: 1 August 2003
.... In Cuban tree frogs ( Osteopilus septentrionalis ), peak instantaneous muscle powers are as much as seven times the power available from hindlimb muscles ( Peplowski and Marsh,1997 ). locomotion muscle work muscle power jumping frog Rana catesbeiana elastic tendon acceleration...
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Journal Articles
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2003) 206 (8): 1325–1336.
Published: 15 April 2003
...M. Polly McGuigan; Alan M. Wilson SUMMARY A horse's legs are compressed during the stance phase, storing and then returning elastic strain energy in spring-like muscle-tendon units. The arrangement of the muscle-tendon units around the lever-like joints means that as the leg shortens the muscle...
Journal Articles
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2000) 203 (14): 2187–2193.
Published: 15 July 2000
...Anna V. L. Pike; Robert F. Ker; R. Mcneill Alexander ABSTRACT The time taken to rupture in cyclic fatigue tests, to a stress of 45 MPa, was used to compare the fatigue quality of tendons from sheep of varying ages. Muscle and tendon cross-sectional areas were used to calculate the stress-in-life...
Journal Articles
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2000) 203 (8): 1317–1327.
Published: 15 April 2000
...Robert F. Ker; Xiao Tong Wang; Anna V. L. Pike ABSTRACT When excised tendons are subjected to a prolonged load, whether constant or oscillatory, fatigue damage accumulates, leading eventually to rupture. ‘Fatigue quality’, assessed by the time-to-rupture under a given stress, was found to vary...
Journal Articles
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2000) 203 (4): 741–750.
Published: 15 February 2000
...A. Seyfarth; R. Blickhan; J. L. Van Leeuwen ABSTRACT A two-segment model based on Alexander (1990 ; Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 329, 3–10) was used to investigate the action of knee extensor muscles during long jumps. A more realistic representation of the muscle and tendon properties than...
Journal Articles
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (2000) 203 (4): 751–756.
Published: 15 February 2000
...Constantinos N. Maganaris; John P. Paul ABSTRACT In the present study, we measured the in vivo load–elongation characteristics of the human tibialis anterior tendon and its central aponeurosis. Measurements were taken in five men using dynamometry, muscle electrical stimulation and ultrasonography...
Journal Articles
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (1999) 202 (23): 3315–3324.
Published: 1 December 1999
...Robert F. Ker ABSTRACT Tendon, articular cartilage and the human heel pad are all soft load-bearing collagenous tissues but are designed according to utterly different micromechanical principles. Tendon is (probably) a fibre-reinforced composite material. The mechanical properties of cartilage...
Journal Articles
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Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (1997) 200 (11): 1703–1708.
Published: 1 June 1997
...Helen L. Birch; Alan M. Wilson; Allen E. Goodship ABSTRACT Tendons that store energy during locomotion, such as the equine superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT) and human Achilles tendon, suffer a high incidence of central core degeneration which is thought to precede tendon rupture. Although...
Journal Articles
Journal:
Journal of Experimental Biology
J Exp Biol (1995) 198 (2): 503–506.
Published: 1 February 1995
...Rob S. James; Iain S. Young; John D. Altringham ABSTRACT The errors likely to result from using excised rigor muscles to determine in vivo sarcomere length ranges were calculated for mouse extensor digitorum longus muscle (EDL). This muscle was chosen because its very long tendon makes...
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