MIT engineers create artificial muscle that mimics real tissue
Now, MIT engineers have taken a major step toward developing robots that replace rigid gears with something much softer – ...
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Joints of the skeletal system
Muscles are attached to bone by tendons. Tendons are very strong, inelastic connective tissues that allow a muscle to pull on a bone to move it. Four of the synovial joint types are responsible ...
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Breakthrough drug reverses groin hernias without surgery
This increase in estrogen triggers changes in skeletal muscle fibroblasts—connective tissue cells—leading to fibrosis and hernia development. Single-cell RNA sequencing revealed a distinct ...
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Multiscale Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory
Our work focuses on understanding how skeletal muscle adapts following injury ... Collagen content is often used as a surrogate for connective tissue quantity to infer muscle stiffness and ...
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Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue Research
Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (also known as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type III) is an inheritable connective tissue disorder involving mainly the joints with hypermobile joints and chronic ...
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Fascial tissue research in sports medicine: from molecules to tissue adaptation, injury and diagnostics: consensus statement
The term fascia was originally used to describe a sheet or band of soft connective tissue that attaches, surrounds and separates internal organs and skeletal muscles. Advancing research on the ...
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Joints of the skeletal system
Muscles are attached to bone by tendons. Tendons are very strong, inelastic connective tissues that allow a muscle to pull on a bone to move it. Four of the synovial joint types are responsible ...