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Marsupial Functional Morphology, Biomechanics, and Feeding Ecology
Researchers have sought to infer the relationships between animal form and function for centuries. The study of biomechanics has become an...
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Marsupial Functional Morphology, Biomechanics, and Feeding Ecology
Researchers have sought to infer the relationships between animal form and function for centuries. The study of biomechanics has become an...
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Environmental enrichment in finishing pigs: does it promote any changes in bone biomechanics?
The resistance of pigs’ bone structure was evaluated for the first time, reared with and without environmental enrichment (EE) in the finishing phase...
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Biomechanics of nectar feeding explain flower orientation in plants pollinated by long-proboscid flies
The function of flower orientation is much debated, with adaptation to pollinator mouthparts being a particularly compelling explanation, but also...
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The Energetics and Biomechanics of Walking and Running
This chapter is on walking and running, the present knowledge of which is due essentially to the School of Milano. After a short historical synopsis,...
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Reconstruction of ovine axonal cytoarchitecture enables more accurate models of brain biomechanics
There is an increased need and focus to understand how local brain microstructure affects the transport of drug molecules directly administered to...
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Functional morphology and biomechanics of arthropods
Representatives of arthropods, the largest animal phylum, occupy terrestrial, aquatic, arboreal, and subterranean niches. Their evolutionary success...
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Predicting altered bone biomechanics in juvenile mice: insights from microgravity simulation, loading interventions, and Raman Spectroscopy
BackgroundMicrogravity, a condition experienced in a spatial environment, poses unique challenges to the skeletal system, particularly in juvenile...
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Great apes’ understanding of biomechanics: eye-tracking experiments using three-dimensional computer-generated animations
Visual processing of the body movements of other animals is important for adaptive animal behaviors. It is widely known that animals can distinguish...
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Ex vivo anticoagulants affect human blood platelet biomechanics with implications for high-throughput functional mechanophenoty**
Inherited platelet disorders affecting the human platelet cytoskeleton result in increased bleeding risk. However, deciphering their impact on...
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Human Limb Biomechanics
This chapter shows common movements of human limbs and describes the action of muscles to move or position the joints and the actions of forces,...
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Plexin-B2 facilitates glioblastoma infiltration by modulating cell biomechanics
Infiltrative growth is a major cause of high lethality of malignant brain tumors such as glioblastoma (GBM). We show here that GBM cells upregulate...
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Glycoside hydrolase processing of the Pel polysaccharide alters biofilm biomechanics and Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence
Pel exopolysaccharide biosynthetic loci are phylogenetically widespread biofilm matrix determinants in bacteria. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa , Pel is...
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Vascular Biomechanics Concepts, Models, and Applications
This textbook serves as a modern introduction to vascular biomechanics and provides the comprehensive overview of the entire vascular system that is...
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Biomechanics of circulating cellular and subcellular bioparticles: beyond separation
Biomechanical attributes have emerged as novel markers, providing a reliable means to characterize cellular and subcellular fractions. Numerous...
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Sounding a New Era in Biomechanics with Acoustic Force Spectroscopy
The acoustic force spectroscopy (AFS) tool was recently introduced as a novel tool for probing mechanical properties of biomolecules, expanding the...
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Biomechanics and Strategies of Digging
In arid and semiarid ecosystems, digging and burrowing are common behaviors in many mammals looking for shelter, food, thermoregulation, etc. Many...
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Computational Biomechanics of Ventricular Dyssynchrony and Resynchronization Therapy
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is one of the few effective treatments for dyssynchronous heart failure (HF), where heart function is...
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Correction to: Vascular Biomechanics: Concepts, Models, and Applications
The book was inadvertently published with:...