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Muscle is a specialized soft tissue that contains special proteins (actin and myosin) which allow it to contract and relax, enabling movement in the body. There are three types of muscle tissue in vertebrates—skeletal, cardiac, and smooth—each playing important roles in how animals function.
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Key facts
- Anatomy.Name
- Muscle
- Anatomy.image
- Types of muscle.webp
- Anatomy.Caption
- Three distinct types of muscle (L to R): skeletal, smooth (non-striated), and cardiac muscle.
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Research
1,372,132 papers- Skeletal muscle design to meet functional demands.ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2011Lieber RL, Ward SRDOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0316
- Chromatin organization of muscle stem cell.ReviewCurrent topics in developmental biology · 2024Santarelli P, Rosti V, Vivo M et al.DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2024.01.014
- Respiratory muscle plasticity.ReviewComprehensive Physiology · 2012Gransee HM, Mantilla CB, Sieck GCDOI: 10.1002/cphy.c110050
- Muscle sense, or nonsense?ReviewAnnals of plastic surgery · 1991Dellon ALDOI: 10.1097/00000637-199105000-00006
- Lower limb muscle injuries: The good, the bad and the ugly.ReviewEuropean journal of radiology · 2018Vidoni A, Gillett M, Botchu R et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2018.05.008
- Non-local muscle fatigue: effects and possible mechanisms.ReviewEuropean journal of applied physiology · 2015Halperin I, Chapman DW, Behm DGDOI: 10.1007/s00421-015-3249-y
- Biomechanical Methods to Quantify Muscle Effort During Resistance Exercise.ReviewJournal of strength and conditioning research · 2018Chiu LZFDOI: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000002330
- An unusual variant of the atlantomastoid muscle.ReviewFolia morphologica · 2023Blackwood NO, Olewnik Ł, Georgiev GP et al.DOI: 10.5603/FM.a2021.0126
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- muscular system
- Image
- Skeletal muscle.jpg
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- Commons category
- Muscles
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- Muscle
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- Category:Muscles
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- Template:Infobox muscle
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- studied by
- myology
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C13056
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