[Purpose] This study aimed to determine the effect of varying hip flexion angle on hip muscle activity during isometric contraction in abduction. [Subjects] Twenty-seven healthy men (mean age=21.5 years, SD=1.2) participated in this study. [Methods] Surface electromyography (EMG) was recorded of the upper portion of the gluteus maximus (UGM), lower portion of the gluteus maximus (LGM), tensor f...

The effect of the cavosurface angle of dentin cavities prepared in extracted human molars on the cavity adaptation of a resin composite was evaluated by measuring the gap width between the resin composite and the dentin cavity wall. Cavities with cavosurface angles of 90 degrees, 120 degrees, 135 degrees, or 150 degrees were pretreated with one of two commercial dentin bonding systems or an exp...

Aberration and radiation pressure reflected by a moving mirror are examples of the Klein, one-way Doppler shift, and Poincaré, two-way Doppler shift, disc models of hyperbolic geometry, respectively. Aberration, like the Thomas precession, is related to the angular defect, and is a kinematical effect rather than relativistic. At the angle of parallelism, determined by a stationary observer look...

Histamine stimulation of swine carotid artery induces both contraction and actin polymerization. The importance of stimulus-induced actin polymerization is not known. Tyrosine phosphorylation of the scaffolding protein paxillin is thought to be an important regulator of actin polymerization. Noise temperature, hysteresivity, and phase angle are rheological measures of the fluidity of a tissue, ...

7 The aim of this study was to determine the 3D muscle fascicle architecture in human triceps 8 surae muscle at different contraction levels and muscle lengths. Six male subjects were tested for 9 three contraction levels (0%, 30% and 60% of MVC) and four ankle angles (-15°, 0°, 15° and 10 30° of plantar flexion), and the muscles were imaged with B-mode ultrasound coupled to 3D 11 position sens...

To evaluate their phase image characteristics, 61 patients with varying left ventricular contraction abnormalities were studied. In 16 normal patients, the left ventricular phase image revealed a homogeneous pattern, a narrow bell-shaped histogram and an orderly spatial progression of phase angle (phi). In 16 patients with segmental abnormalities, the left ventricular phase image showed a regio...

Compared to pure isometric contractions, isometric muscle force at a given length is larger when the eccentric contraction is conducted before the isometric contraction. This phenomenon is widely known as residual force enhancement, and has been confirmed consistently in isolated muscle experiments. The purpose of this study was to confirm whether residual force enhancement also occurs in human...

Understanding the function of vastus lateralis (VL) and medialis (VM) muscles is important since these are essential for daily sport activities. The association between knee flexion angle spatial muscle activation controversial. This study compares distribution patterns multi-channel electromyographic activities VL VM at three angles intensities isometric contraction. Sixteen men performed exte...