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A Biofeedback System that Uses the Game to Study Electrical Muscle Activity
PublicationThe aim of this project was to design a system that will allow performing repetitive muscle exercises using a biofeedback device. It is supposed to enhance the motivation and attractiveness of the performed tasks thanks to an interactive game developed for mobile devices with the Android operating system. The built-in calibration mechanisms enable the users to play a game that is independent of their abilities which evens out the...
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Modelling and simulation of striated muscle and groups of muscles in arm-forearm system 2D
PublicationModel mięśnia szkieletowego poprzecznie prążkowanego został przedstawiony jako szeregowe połączenie aktywnych i pasywnych odcinków reologicznych. Zasymulowane zostały: skurcze pojedyncze, niecałkowity skurcz tężcowy, całkowity skurcz tężcowy. Model zespołu mięśni w układzie ramię-przedramię opisu-je zmianę kąta obrotu przedramienia względem nieruchomego ramienia. Pobudzając zginacze i prostowniki był zasymulowany obrót przedramienia.
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Chosen aspects of muscle biomechanics
PublicationConsidering a striated skeletal muscle as a different properties mechanical system, one can understand series of important phenomena happening in a real muscle phenomenon of muscle: 1) force delivery to skeletal apparatus through tendons; 2) changing of exerted muscle belly mass distribution with regards to skeletal apparatus; 3) beginning drop of muscle force. A disregard of first phenomenon causes an impossibility to explain...
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Enhancing rheological muscle models with stochastic processes
PublicationPurpose: Biological musculoskeletal systems operate under variable conditions. Muscle stiffness, activation signals, and loads change during each movement. The presence of noise and different harmonic components in force production significantly influences the behaviour of the muscular system. Therefore, it is essential to consider these factors in numerical simulations. Methods: This study aims to develop a rheological mathematical...
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Application of muscle model to the musculoskeletal modeling
PublicationThe purpose of this paper is to investigate new fusiform muscle models. Each of these models treats a muscle as a system composedof parts characterized by different mechanical properties. These models explain the influence of differences in the stiffness of lateral parts and the degree of muscle model discretization. Each muscle model is described by a system of differential equations and a single integro-differential equation....
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A two dimensional approach for modelling of pennate muscle behaviour
PublicationThe purpose of this study was to elaborate a two-dimensional approach for unipennate and bipennate striated skeletal muscle modelling. Behavior of chosen flat pennate muscle is modelled as a rheological system composed of serially linked passive and active fragments having different mechanical properties. Each fragment is composed of three elements: mass element, elastic element and viscous element. Each active fragment furthermore...
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Wiktoria Wojnicz dr hab. inż.
PeopleDSc in Mechanics (in the field of Biomechanics) - Lodz Univeristy of Technology, 2019 PhD in Mechanics (in the field of Biomechanics) - Lodz Univeristy of Technology, 2009 (with distinction) List of papers (2009 - ) Wojnicz W., Wittbrodt E., Analysis of muscles' behaviour. Part I. The computational model of muscle. Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics, Vol. 11, No.4, 2009, p. 15-21 Wojnicz W., Wittbrodt E., Analysis of...
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The Influence of External Additional Loading on the Muscle Activity and Ground Reaction Forces during Gait
PublicationAsymmetrical external loading acting on the usculoskeletal system is generally considered unhealthy. Despite this knowledge, carrying loads in an asymmetrical manner like carrying on one shoulder, with one hand, or on the strap across the torso is a common practice. This study is aimed at presenting the effects of the mentioned load carrying methods on muscle activity assessed by using thermal field and ground reaction forces....
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Mathematical model of pennate muscle
PublicationThe purpose of this study is to create a new mathematical model of pennate striated skeletal muscle. This new model describes behaviour of isolated flat pennate muscle in two dimensions (2D) by taking into account that rheological properties of muscle fibres depend on their planar arrangement. A new mathematical model is implemented in two types: 1) numerical model of unipennate muscle (unipennate model); 2) numerical model of...
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Arm EMG Wavelet-Based Denoising System
PublicationThese paper presents research results of muscle EMG signal denoising. In the same time two muscles were examined - an adductor muscle (biceps brachii) and an abductor muscle (tricpeps brachii). The EMG signal was filtered using the wavelet transform technique, having selected the crucial parameters as: wavelet basis function (Daubechies 4), 10 th decomposition level, threshold selection algorithm (Heurestic) and a sln rescaling...
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Effect of the Combined Therapy of the Muscle Energy Technique and Trigger Point Therapy on the Biophysical Parameters of the Trapezius Muscle: a Randomized Clinical Trial
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Modelling of planar movement dynamics of upper limb
PublicationThe original model describing planar movement dynamics of upper limb is presented. The upper limb is modelled as two-joints system loaded by external forces and internal forces of striated skeletal muscles. A behaviour of each muscle is modelled as a system composed of serially linked rheologic fragments that have different mechanical properties. These muscle models allow us to simulate a behaviour of short fusiform muscle (3DOF...
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Muscle strength and endurance in high-level rock climbers
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Perceptual and Motor Effects of Muscle Co-activation in a Force Production Task
PublicationWe tested several predictions of the theory of motor control with spatial referent coordinates related to effects of muscle coactivation on force production and perception. In particular, we predicted that subjects would produce unintentional force increase by finger flexors and be unaware of this force increase. Healthy subjects performed steady force production task in isometric conditions with visual feedback on the force level....
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Contribution of small heat shock proteins to muscle development and function
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The association between irisin and muscle metabolism in different thyroid disorders
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Analysis of muscles behaviour : The computational model of muscle. -Part I
PublicationW artykule zaproponowano model obliczeniowy mięśnia szkieletowego, który potraktowano jako strukturę o złożonych i zróżnicowanych właściwościach mechanicznych. Szczegółowo opisano metodę identyfikacji tych właściwości. Ponadto określono sposób przeprowadzenia weryfikacji ilościowej i jakościowej zaproponowanego modelu. Za pomocą takiego obliczeniowego modelu mięśnia można łatwo określać siły w mięśniach, które należą do zespołu...
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Urinary metabolomic signature of muscle-invasive bladder cancer: A multiplatform approach
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Influence of Additional Loads on Chosen Gait Parameters and Muscles Activity
PublicationThis paper is devoted to human motion analysis and comparison of chosen kinematics parameters during normal gait with and without additional load in a form of backpack. A stability in both cases were compared in both frontal and sagittal planes, by applying a video tracking system. Experimental tests performed on treadmill, passive markers, placed on volunteers bare skin were used. Additionally, an infra-red camera was employed...
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Database of speech and facial expressions recorded with optimized face motion capture settings
PublicationThe broad objective of the present research is the analysis of spoken English employing a multiplicity of modalities. An important stage of this process, discussed in the paper, is creating a database of speech accompanied with facial expressions. Recordings of speakers were made using an advanced system for capturing facial muscle motion. A brief historical outline, current applications, limitations and the ways of capturing face...
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Evaluation of cardiac muscle microvessel density in children diagnosed with cyanotic heart defects
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Maximizing Muscle Hypertrophy: A Systematic Review of Advanced Resistance Training Techniques and Methods
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Relationship Between Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Diurnal Blood Pressure Profile
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Interactive Effect of Heart Rate and Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity on Blood Pressure
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Convolutional Neural Networks for C. Elegans Muscle Age Classification Using Only Self-Learned Features
PublicationNematodes Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) have been used as model organisms in a wide variety of biological studies, especially those intended to obtain a better understanding of aging and age-associated diseases. This paper focuses on automating the analysis of C. elegans imagery to classify the muscle age of nematodes based on the known and well established IICBU dataset. Unlike many modern classification methods, the proposed...
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IL-22 modulates inflammatory properties of human primary aortic smooth muscle cells
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A Comparison of Muscle Activity Between the Cambered and Standard Bar During the Bench Press Exercise
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Changes in Muscle Pattern Activity during the Asymmetric Flat Bench Press (Offset Training)
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Hyperventilation alters arterial baroreflex control of heart rate and muscle sympathetic nerve activity
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Metabolic Gene Expression in the Muscle and Blood Parameters of Broiler Chickens Stimulated In Ovo with Synbiotics
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Effect of sex and menstrual cycle in women on starting speed, anaerobic endurance and muscle power
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MicroRNA expression profile analysis in human skeletal muscle tissue: Selection of critical reference
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Applications of calcium electroporation to effective apoptosis induction in fibrosarcoma cells and stimulation of normal muscle cells
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The Effects of the “Sling Shot” Device on Bench Press Performance, Mechanical Properties of Muscle, and Movement Kinematics
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Acute Effects of Varied Back Squat Activation Protocols on Muscle-Tendon Stiffness and Jumping Performance
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Longitudinal tracking of muscle sympathetic nerve activity and its relationship with blood pressure in subjects with prehypertension
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An independent relationship between muscle sympathetic nerve activity and pulse wave velocity in normal humans
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Post mortem changes in M. iliotibialis lateralis muscle protein profile of emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
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Effect of Whole-Body Cryostimulation on Serum Mediators of Inflammation and Serum Muscle Enzyme in Healthy Men
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Up-regulation of ferritin ubiquitination in skeletal muscle of transgenic rats bearing the G93A hmSOD1 gene mutation
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The effect of interleukin-35 on the integrity, ICAM-1 expression and apoptosis of human aortic smooth muscle cells
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Evaluation of the Combination of Muscle Energy Technique and Trigger Point Therapy in Asymptomatic Individuals with a Latent Trigger Point
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Comparison of Muscle Activity During 200 m Indoor Curve and Straight Sprinting in Elite Female Sprinters
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Tonic chemoreflex activation contributes to the elevated muscle sympathetic nerve activity in patients with chronic renal failure
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Rapid method for the determination of organochlorine pesticides and PCBs in fish muscle samples by microwave-assisted extraction and analysis of extracts by GC-ECD
PublicationA procedure for the multiresidue determination of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in fish muscle samples has been developed. The method is based on the microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) of food samples from an acetonitrile-water (95 + 5, v/v) mixture followed by SPE cleanup of the extracts and analysis by GC with an electron capture detector. MAE operational parameters, such as the extraction solvent,...
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Changes in Muscle Activity Imbalance of the Lower Limbs Following 3 Weeks of Supplementary Body-Weight Unilateral Training
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Acute Effects of High-Load vs. Plyometric Conditioning Activity on Jumping Performance and the Muscle-Tendon Mechanical Properties
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Role of adenylate kinase 4 as a new metabolic regulator of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells under hypoxia
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Pre-exercise cryotherapy reduces myoglobin and creatine kinase levels after eccentric muscle stress in young women
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New perspective on the in vivo use of cold stress dynamic thermography in integumental reconstruction with the use of skin-muscle flaps
PublicationAmong the problems encountered by plastic surgeons is the reconstruction of defects following tumors. One of the reconstructive options is TRAM flap. Despite that anatomy is well-explored, marginal flap necrosis may develop. To minimize complications imaging examinations was designed to determine the degree of flap perfusion. One of them is the thermographic examination.