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Journal articles on the topic "Muscle gearing"

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Eng, Carolyn M., and Thomas J. Roberts. "Aponeurosis influences the relationship between muscle gearing and force." Journal of Applied Physiology 125, no. 2 (August 1, 2018): 513–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00151.2018.

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Aponeuroses are connective tissues found on the surface of pennate muscles and are in close association with muscle fascicles. In addition to transmitting muscle forces to the external tendon, aponeurosis has been hypothesized to influence the direction of muscle shape change during a contraction. Muscle shape changes affect muscle contractile force and velocity because they influence the gear ratio with which muscle fascicles transmit force and velocity to the tendon. If aponeurosis modulates muscle shape changes, altering the aponeurosis’ radial integrity with incisions should alter gearing. We tested the hypothesis that incising the aponeurosis would lead to decreased gearing across force conditions with an in situ preparation of the turkey lateral gastrocnemius muscle. We found that multiple full-length incisions in the aponeurosis altered the relationship between gearing and force relative to the intact aponeurosis condition. Specifically, after multiple aponeurosis incisions, gear ratio decreased by 19% in the high-force contractions compared with the intact condition. These results suggest that aponeuroses influence muscle shape change and can alter muscle contractile force and speed through their effect on muscle gearing. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Muscle gearing is determined by muscle shape change during a contraction and varies with the force of contraction. Variable gearing influences muscle force and speed, but how gearing is modulated is not well understood. Incising the aponeurosis before and after contractions demonstrates that aponeurosis plays a role in modulating gearing.
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Carrier, D. R., C. S. Gregersen, and N. A. Silverton. "Dynamic gearing in running dogs." Journal of Experimental Biology 201, no. 23 (December 1, 1998): 3185–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.201.23.3185.

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Dynamic gearing is a mechanism that has been suggested to enhance the performance of skeletal muscles by maintaining them at the shortening velocities that maximize their power or efficiency. We investigated this hypothesis in three domestic dogs during trotting and galloping. We used ground force recordings and kinematic analysis to calculate the changes in gear ratio that occur during the production of the external work of locomotion. We also monitored length changes of the vastus lateralis muscle, an extensor muscle of the knee, using sonomicrometry in four additional dogs to determine the nature and rate of active shortening of this muscle. During both trotting and galloping, the gear ratios of the extensor muscles of the elbow, wrist and ankle joints were relatively constant early in limb support, but decreased rapidly during the second half of support. The gear ratio at the hip exerted an extensor moment initially, but decreased throughout limb support and became negative midway through support. This pattern of decreasing gear ratio during the second half of support indicates that dynamic gearing does not maximize muscle power or efficiency at the elbow, wrist, hip and ankle joints. In contrast,the extensor muscles of the shoulder and knee joints exhibited an increase in gear ratio during limb support. In two dogs, the vastus lateralis muscle shortened at a relatively constant rate of 3.7-4 lengths s-1 during intermediate-speed galloping. This pattern of increasing gear ratio and constant velocity of muscle shortening at the knee joint is consistent with the hypothesis of dynamic gearing. Given the amount of work done at the knee and shoulder joints of running dogs, dynamic gearing may contribute to the economy of constant-speed running and may be important to integrated limb function.
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Wakeling, James M., Ollie M. Blake, Iris Wong, Manku Rana, and Sabrina S. M. Lee. "Movement mechanics as a determinate of muscle structure, recruitment and coordination." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366, no. 1570 (May 27, 2011): 1554–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0294.

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During muscle contractions, the muscle fascicles may shorten at a rate different from the muscle-tendon unit, and the ratio of these velocities is its gearing. Appropriate gearing allows fascicles to reduce their shortening velocities and allows them to operate at effective shortening velocities across a range of movements. Gearing of the muscle fascicles within the muscle belly is the result of rotations of the fascicles and bulging of the belly. Variable gearing can also occur as a result of tendon length changes that can be caused by changes in the relative timing of muscle activity for different mechanical tasks. Recruitment patterns of slow and fast fibres are crucial for achieving optimal muscle performance, and coordination between muscles is related to whole limb performance. Poor coordination leads to inefficiencies and loss of power, and optimal coordination is required for high power outputs and high mechanical efficiencies from the limb. This paper summarizes key studies in these areas of neuromuscular mechanics and results from studies where we have tested these phenomena on a cycle ergometer are presented to highlight novel insights. The studies show how muscle structure and neural activation interact to generate smooth and effective motion of the body.
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Wakeling, James M., Meghan Jackman, and Ana I. Namburete. "The Effect of External Compression on the Mechanics of Muscle Contraction." Journal of Applied Biomechanics 29, no. 3 (June 2013): 360–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jab.29.3.360.

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The velocity at which a muscle fascicle will shorten, and hence the force that it can develop, depends on its gearing within the muscle belly. Muscle fascicle length depends on both its pennation and the thickness of the muscle. It was expected that external compression would reduce the muscle thickness and pennation and thus cause a reduction to the gearing of the fascicles relative to the muscle belly. Structural properties of the medial gastrocnemius muscle were visualized using B-mode ultrasound in six subjects. Measurements were taken during cyclical isotonic contractions at three different ankle torques and with the application of no, one, or two elastic compression bandages to the lower leg. Ankle torques and angular velocities were unaffected by the external compression. External compression did, however, reduce the muscle thickness and the fascicle pennation and resulted in a decrease in the gearing within the muscle belly. Reductions in gearing would result in an increase in the muscle fascicle shortening velocity that would reduce the force-generating potential of the fascicles. It is suggested that externally applied compression should not be considered a way to enhance muscle performance when based on the structural mechanics.
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Wakeling, J. M., and I. A. Johnston. "White muscle strain in the common carp and red to white muscle gearing ratios in fish." Journal of Experimental Biology 202, no. 5 (March 1, 1999): 521–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.202.5.521.

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White muscle strains were recorded using sonomicrometry techniques for 70 fast-starts in the common carp Cyprinus carpio L. High-speed cine images were recorded simultaneously for 54 of these starts, and muscle strain was calculated independently from the digitized outlines of the fish. Sonomicrometry measurements of superficial muscle strain were not significantly different from the strain as calculated from the theory of simple bending of a homogeneous material: superficial muscle strain thus varied with chordwise distance from the spine. However, white muscle strain across a transverse section of the myotome shows less variation with chordwise position than would be expected from simple bending theory. Muscle strains measured using sonomicrometry thus do not necessarily represent the more uniform strain predicted for the whole section of the fish. White muscle strain can be accurately predicted from the spine curvatures as measured from the cine images if the gearing ratio between the red and white muscle fibres is known. A model for calculating the gearing ratio from the helical muscle fibre geometry was re-evaluated using current data for the kinematics of fast-starting C. carpio. This model predicted a mean gearing ratio of 2.8 for these fast-starts. A quicker, alternative approach to estimating gearing ratio from the position of the centroid of white fibre area is proposed and results in ratios similar to those calculated from the model of helical geometry. White muscle strains in fish can thus be estimated from measurements of spine curvature and muscle distribution alone.
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Dick, Taylor J. M., and James M. Wakeling. "Shifting gears: dynamic muscle shape changes and force-velocity behavior in the medial gastrocnemius." Journal of Applied Physiology 123, no. 6 (December 1, 2017): 1433–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.01050.2016.

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When muscles contract, they bulge in thickness or in width to maintain a (nearly) constant volume. These dynamic shape changes are tightly linked to the internal constraints placed on individual muscle fibers and play a key functional role in modulating the mechanical performance of skeletal muscle by increasing its range of operating velocities. Yet to date we have a limited understanding of the nature and functional implications of in vivo dynamic muscle shape change under submaximal conditions. This study determined how the in vivo changes in medial gastrocnemius (MG) fascicle velocity, pennation angle, muscle thickness, and subsequent muscle gearing varied as a function of force and velocity. To do this, we obtained recordings of MG tendon length, fascicle length, pennation angle, and thickness using B-mode ultrasound and muscle activation using surface electromyography during cycling at a range of cadences and loads. We found that that increases in contractile force were accompanied by reduced bulging in muscle thickness, reduced increases in pennation angle, and faster fascicle shortening. Although the force and velocity of a muscle contraction are inversely related due to the force-velocity effect, this study has shown how dynamic muscle shape changes are influenced by force and not influenced by velocity.NEW & NOTEWORTHY During movement, skeletal muscles contract and bulge in thickness or width. These shape changes play a key role in modulating the performance of skeletal muscle by increasing its range of operating velocities. Yet to date the underlying mechanisms associated with muscle shape change remain largely unexplored. This study identified muscle force, and not velocity, as the mechanistic driving factor to allow for muscle gearing to vary depending on the contractile conditions during human cycling.
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Roberts, Thomas J., Carolyn M. Eng, David A. Sleboda, Natalie C. Holt, Elizabeth L. Brainerd, Kristin K. Stover, Richard L. Marsh, and Emanuel Azizi. "The Multi-Scale, Three-Dimensional Nature of Skeletal Muscle Contraction." Physiology 34, no. 6 (November 1, 2019): 402–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/physiol.00023.2019.

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Muscle contraction is a three-dimensional process, as anyone who has observed a bulging muscle knows. Recent studies suggest that the three-dimensional nature of muscle contraction influences its mechanical output. Shape changes and radial forces appear to be important across scales of organization. Muscle architectural gearing is an emerging example of this process.
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Eng, Carolyn M., Emanuel Azizi, and Thomas J. Roberts. "Structural Determinants of Muscle Gearing During Dynamic Contractions." Integrative and Comparative Biology 58, no. 2 (June 7, 2018): 207–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icy054.

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Wang, Yingjie, Chunbao Liu, Luquan Ren, and Lei Ren. "Load-dependent Variable Gearing Mechanism of Muscle-like Soft Actuator." Journal of Bionic Engineering 19, no. 1 (December 16, 2021): 29–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42235-021-00129-1.

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AbstractPennate muscle is characterized by muscle fibers that are oriented at a certain angle (pennation angle) relative to the muscle’s line of action and rotation during contraction. This fiber rotation amplifies the shortening velocity of muscle, to match loading conditions without any control system. This unique variable gearing mechanism, which characterized by Architecture Gear Ratio (AGR), is involves complex interaction among three key elements: muscle fibers, connective tissue, and the pennation angle. However, how three elements determine the AGR of muscle-like actuator is still unknown. This study introduces a Himisk actuator that arranges five contractile units at a certain pennation angle in a flexible matrix, the experiment and simulation results demonstrated that the proposed actuator could vary AGR automatically in response to variable loading conditions. Based on this actuator, we present a series of actuators by simulations with the varying pennation angle (P), elastic modulus of the flexible matrix (E), and number of contractile units (N) to analyze their effects on AGR, and their interaction by three-factor analysis of variance. The results demonstrated that P and N effect on the AGR significantly, while E effects on AGR slightly, which supported the idea that the P is the essential factor for the AGR, and N is also an important factor due to the capability of force generation. This provides a better understanding of mechanical behavior and an effective optimizing strategy to muscle-like soft actuator.
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Wakeling, J. M., and I. A. Johnston. "Muscle power output limits fast-start performance in fish." Journal of Experimental Biology 201, no. 10 (May 15, 1998): 1505–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.201.10.1505.

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Fast-starts associated with escape responses were filmed at the median habitat temperatures of six teleost fish: Notothenia coriiceps and Notothenia rossii (Antarctica), Myoxocephalus scorpius (North Sea), Scorpaena notata and Serranus cabrilla (Mediterranean) and Paracirrhites forsteri (Indo-West-Pacific Ocean). Methods are presented for estimating the spine positions for silhouettes of swimming fish. These methods were used to validate techniques for calculating kinematics and muscle dynamics during fast-starts. The starts from all species show common patterns, with waves of body curvature travelling from head to tail and increasing in amplitude. Cross-validation with sonomicrometry studies allowed gearing ratios between the red and white muscle to be calculated. Gearing ratios must decrease towards the tail with a corresponding change in muscle geometry, resulting in similar white muscle fibre strains in all the myotomes during the start. A work-loop technique was used to measure mean muscle power output at similar strain and shortening durations to those found in vivo. The fast Sc. notata myotomal fibres produced a mean muscle-mass-specific power of 142.7 W kg-1 at 20 degrees C. Velocity, acceleration and hydrodynamic power output increased both with the travelling rate of the wave of body curvature and with the habitat temperature. At all temperatures, the predicted mean muscle-mass-specific power outputs, as calculated from swimming sequences, were similar to the muscle power outputs measured from work-loop experiments.
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Conference papers on the topic "Muscle gearing"

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Uttamchandani, Shivani, Pranali Fokmare, Pratik Phansopkar, and Dhiraj Agrawal. "PowerBall: A gearing system for rehabilitation of antebrachium muscles." In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL 2023: ITSEMC2023, 100024. AIP Publishing, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0245024.

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