... sections to 5 cycles of uniaxial mechanical tension testing, followed by a test to rupture. Loop curves demonstrated that steady state was reached by the fourth cycle for both aortic and pulmonary artery vessel segments ( Fig. 4 A). Although load limits in cycle tests were set according to the expected...

... velocities under intermediate loads. We also found that the jaw muscles exerted higher specific tensions and had a greater curvature to their force–velocity relationship. The consistent patterns across five species suggest that these jaw and leg muscles have specialized in different ways. Examination...

... in tension (young adult and aged), (2) annular cartilages without perichondria tested in compression (young adult and aged) and (3) bovine auricular cartilage samples without perichondria tested in both tension and compression. Results of this study demonstrated that all cartilages were highly viscoelastic...

... with a small amount of cytosol and confined under mineral oil showed periodic rounding and slackening at fairly regular intervals. Activity lasted for over 30 min at room temperature (24–27 °C). The rounding of the in vitro contractile vacuole corresponded to the increased membrane tension of the in vivo...

...Gwendolen C. Reilly; John D. Currey ABSTRACT During locomotion, the anterior cortex of the equine radius is loaded predominantly in tension, the posterior predominantly in compression. The anterior cortex is relatively strong in tension, the posterior in compression. We investigated the pattern...

...T. Kobayashi; H. Ushitani; H. Wada; J. Inoue; T. Kawakami; H. Sugi ABSTRACT The effect of mechanical vibration on active tension in an echinoderm somatic smooth muscle was studied using the longitudinal retractor muscle (LRM) of a sea cucumber Stichopus japonicus . VBThe steady contracture tension...