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An international collaboration of educators, researchers, physicians, students, programmers, instructional designers and graphic artists working together to build a highly interactive human physiology course on the Web. Materials produced will be made freely available. |
Welcome to the muscle physiology section of the Harvey project. In this section (which has been under constant change for the last eight months at least) we have created a series of animations designed to explain some of the key points of how muscle works.
These animations are in the form of either Macromedia's shockwave files or Quicktime movies that you can select depending on your system. If you have any problem's loading these then you should follow the relevant links provided at the bottom of this page for further instructions. However, please note that these files are quite large and may well take some time to load, so please be patient.
If you have any problems or queries concerning the materials on this site then please feel free to e-mail me and I will try and answer your questions as quickly as I can (this may take up to week though so I apologies in advance).
The latest additions to the site is an animation in the
mechanics section describing how muscles use their linear forces to produce
rotational movement using the skeletal system.
The work carried out so far is exclusively to do with skeletal muscle (smooth and cardiac sections will follow) and is grouped into three main areas.
Structure: Biceps, Fibres, Fibrils and Sarcomere's. Mechanics:
The Cross-bridge Cycle and the Power Stroke Regulation: Impulsive Behaviour
The whole idea of the Harvey project is to gather information and make it freely available for everyone's benefit. Therefore, if you have work that you have done that could go on this site, or if you would like to be one of the reviewers then please contact us because we would love to hear from you.
Contributors so far include
Dr. David Morgan of Monash University, Australia.
Dr. Ludmilla Skubiszak from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
