Students learn more about how muscles work and how biomedical engineers can help keep the muscular system healthy. Following the engineering design process, they create their own biomedical device to aid in the recovery of a strained bicep. They discover the importance of rest to muscle recovery and that muscles (just like engineers!) work together to achieve a common goal.

Biology is designed for multi-semester biology courses for science majors. It is grounded on an evolutionary basis and includes exciting features that highlight careers in the biological sciences and everyday applications of the concepts at hand. To meet the needs of today’s instructors and students, some content has been strategically condensed while maintaining the overall scope and coverage of traditional texts for this course. Instructors can customize the book, adapting it to the approach that works best in their classroom. Biology also includes an innovative art program that incorporates critical thinking and clicker questions to help students understand—and apply—key concepts.

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Classify the different types of bones in the skeletonExplain the role of the different cell types in boneExplain how bone forms during development

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Classify the different types of joints on the basis of structureExplain the role of joints in skeletal movement

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Classify the different types of muscle tissueExplain the role of muscles in locomotion

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Discuss the different types of skeletal systemsExplain the role of the human skeletal systemCompare and contrast different skeletal systems

Biology is designed for multi-semester biology courses for science majors. It is grounded on an evolutionary basis and includes exciting features that highlight careers in the biological sciences and everyday applications of the concepts at hand. To meet the needs of today’s instructors and students, some content has been strategically condensed while maintaining the overall scope and coverage of traditional texts for this course. Instructors can customize the book, adapting it to the approach that works best in their classroom. Biology also includes an innovative art program that incorporates critical thinking and clicker questions to help students understand—and apply—key concepts.

The musculoskeletal system includes bones, joints, cartilage, muscles, ligaments and tendons. In order to describe anatomical landmarks for example for the purposes of surgery and to be able to describe different directional information, for example when recording the view of a recently taken x-ray, it is necessary to have a way of describing the planes and axes that can be applied to the musculoskeletal system to pinpoint a specific anatomical area.

This activity is an introduction to the concept of levers, the classes, and their parts using the musculoskeletal system.

Students are introduced to the field of biomechanics and how the muscular system produces human movement. They learn the importance of the muscular system in our daily lives, why it is important to be able to repair muscular system injuries and how engineering can help.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Fibroblasts are responsible for producing and assembling the extracellular matrix (ECM), the scaffolding material that gives tissues their structure, which is critical in shaping the form and function of muscle throughout the body. Fibroblast function is aided by the shuttling of extracellular vesicles (EVs) – tiny sacs of cellular material that facilitate communication between cells. EV research has focused largely on their role in cancer, but a new study has examined their function in human muscle. Proteomics experiments revealed three distinct profiles for EVs released from tendon fibroblasts, muscle fibroblasts, and differentiating myoblasts. Fibroblast-derived EVs were more similar to one another than to EVs from myoblasts. However, while EVs from tendon fibroblasts showed an abundance of proteins supporting ECM synthesis. EVs from muscle fibroblasts were enriched in proteins that support myofiber function and components of the skeletal muscle matrix..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.