contractile
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The model also predicted how another type of contractile fiber could be targeted by the experimental Src inhibitor WH4023, which they experimentally validated with human cardiac fibroblasts.
From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024
Muscle strength is the maximum force that muscles can generate during a voluntary contraction, while twitch contractile refers to how a muscle responds to an electrical stimulus.
From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2024
Furthermore, declaring a single, electrically active and contractile organ, or the contractile cells it comes from, the stand-alone determinant of personhood is simply not valid.
From Scientific American • Jan. 23, 2023
These animals possess a ring of muscles lining the dome of the body, which provides the contractile force required to swim through water.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The sense of freedom of the spirit, of the absence of all contractile elements in Blake’s work must however be obvious to all.
From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Langridge, Irene
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