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Slideshow:
Marathon Mouse
Slideshow:
Muscular System
Content Resources
Detailed Superficial & Deep Muscle Info
Resistance Machine How-Tos & Muscles Worked
Loyola U.
Master Muscle List
Kids Health:
Your Muscles
How Stuff Works:
How Muscles Work
Micrographs of Muscle Features
Video
Animation:
Sarcomere Contraction
Sarcomere Contraction
Muscle Bound: Jaw Muscle Evolution and How Muscles Work
asapScience:
The Scientific Secret of Strength and Muscle Growth
(3:19)
asapScience:
Multiple Sclerosis
(2:42)
Big Guns: The Muscular System - CrashCourse Biology #31
(12:52)
Muscle Activation During Gait
(0:22)
How a muscle contraction is signalled
(2:09)
Animation:
Action Potentials and Muscle Contraction
NOVA
Aiding Aging Muscles
(3:34)
NOVA
Marathon Mouse
(12:27)
Sumo Wrestler vs. Female Orangutan
(2:47)
SciShow:
Why Do Birds Have White And Dark Meat? (And Do We?)
(2:47)
Neuromuscular Junction
Video:
Contraction of muscle: function of neuromuscular junction
(3:16)
Creative student video:
Events at the Neuromuscular Junction
(3:21)
3D Video:
Neuromuscular Junction
(1:47)
Cool Stuff
SciAm Video:
Frog's leap, a marvel of muscle mechanics
SciAm Ask the Experts:
What causes leg cramps?
SciAm Ask the Experts:
How does exercise make your muscles stronger?
Smithsonian Video:
MIT's New Water-Powered Artificial Muscles
The Science of Meat: Comparative Muscle Chart
Interactive Tutorials
Get Body Smart: Muscular System
Get Body Smart:
Structure and Function of Sarcomeres
Actin & Myosin
MedlinePlus Muscular System
Muscle Structure and Function
Sarcomere Labeling
Muscle Anatomy & Contraction
Muscle Body Diagram
Virtual Frog Muscle Lab
Talking Muscles
Wisc-Online:
Muscle Cell Contraction
Wisc-Online:
The Structure of the Muscle Organ
Wisc-Online:
Movement Terminology
Muscle Labeling Exercises
Pelvic Muscles
BBC
Interactive Muscles
Sliding Filament Theory
Scitable:
The Sliding Filament Theory of Muscle Contraction
How Muscles Shorten
News & Articles
SciAm:
"Marathon Mice" Spotlight a Rare Type of Muscle
(Jan 2, 2007)
SciAm Podcast:
Artificial Gravity Slows Muscle Loss
(1:15)
SciAm:
What is muscular dystrophy?
(Sept 3, 2008)
SciAm:
Newfound Stem Cells May Lead to Regenerative Therapies for Damaged Muscles
(May 31, 2007)
Science Friday Podcast:
What the Doctor Ordered: Building New Body Parts
(23:20)
Duke Pratt School of Engineering:
Self-Healing Engineered Muscle Grown in the Laboratory
(3/31/2014)
NPR:
Red Fish, Blue Fish: Where The Fish Flesh Rainbow Comes From
(6/17/2014)