"Muscle Contraction" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A process leading to shortening and/or development of tension in muscle tissue. Muscle contraction occurs by a sliding filament mechanism whereby actin filaments slide inward among the myosin filaments.
| Descriptor ID |
D009119
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
G11.427.494
|
| Concept/Terms |
Muscle Contraction- Muscle Contraction
- Contraction, Muscle
- Contractions, Muscle
- Muscle Contractions
- Muscular Contraction
- Contraction, Muscular
- Contractions, Muscular
- Muscular Contractions
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Muscle Contraction".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Muscle Contraction".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Muscle Contraction" by people in this website by year, and whether "Muscle Contraction" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1994 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 1995 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 1996 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 1997 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 1998 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2001 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2002 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2003 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2004 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2013 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2015 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Muscle Contraction" by people in Profiles.
-
Frog Fibres: What Muscle Architecture Can Tell Us About Anuran Locomotor Function. J Morphol. 2025 Jan; 286(1):e70016.
-
The effects of crank power and cadence on muscle fascicle shortening velocity, muscle activation and joint-specific power during cycling. J Exp Biol. 2023 07 01; 226(13).
-
Increased muscle force does not induce greater stretch-induced damage to calf muscles during work-matched heel drop exercise. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2023 Aug; 123(8):1801-1808.
-
Noncanonical electromechanical coupling paths in cardiac hERG potassium channel. Nat Commun. 2023 02 27; 14(1):1110.
-
Angiotensin II-Induced Long Non-Coding RNA Alivec Regulates Chondrogenesis in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells. Cells. 2021 10 09; 10(10).
-
Loss of dysferlin or myoferlin results in differential defects in excitation-contraction coupling in mouse skeletal muscle. Sci Rep. 2021 08 05; 11(1):15865.
-
Differences in muscle mechanics underlie divergent optimality criteria between feeding and locomotor systems. J Anat. 2020 12; 237(6):1072-1086.
-
Tissue traction microscopy to quantify muscle contraction within precision-cut lung slices. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2020 02 01; 318(2):L323-L330.
-
Akt1-mediated CPR cooling protection targets regulators of metabolism, inflammation and contractile function in mouse cardiac arrest. PLoS One. 2019; 14(8):e0220604.
-
EPHA4 regulates vascular smooth muscle cell contractility and is a sex-specific hypertension risk gene in individuals with type 2 diabetes. J Hypertens. 2019 04; 37(4):775-789.