Ligaments and tendons are two main types of connective tissues that help the muscular-skeletal system produce movements. The muscles contract to pull on the bones to produce movements. Joints are ...

No study has systematically examined the impact of repeated bouts of muscle damage and repair over a number of years on the structure and function of skeletal muscle. Accordingly, the aim of this ...

skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Only cardiac muscle tissue, comprising cells called myocytes, is present in the heart. In this article, we discuss the structure and function of cardiac muscle tissue.

Skeletal muscles work in pairs to move the body ... The movement of muscles and structure of muscle tissue could be looked at in more detail, with students investigating what happens when muscles ...

All skeletal muscle contractions originate at the junction ... been visual depictions of how the process works. What does the structure of the muscle receptor protein that opens up look like?