Skeletal muscle is the largest metabolic organ in the body. It is composed of muscle fibers, blood vessels, nerves and connective tissue. In skeletal muscle, blood vessels are responsible for ...

In a first for tissue engineering, scientists have created slivers of muscle that produce their own network of blood vessels. The accomplishment may provide insights for generating more-complex ...

The length-tension relationship was determined for strips of guinea pig taenia coli and correlated with the length and ultrastructural organization of the component fibers. The mean fiber length in ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Although the airways of vertebrates are diverse in shape, complexity, and function, they all contain visceral smooth muscle. The morphology, ...