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Muscle Physiology

Muscle physiology is the study of how muscles function, encompassing the mechanisms of muscle contraction, the generation of force and movement, and the ways muscles obtain and use energy. At its core is the sliding-filament mechanism, in which the proteins actin and myosin interact, powered by ATP and regulated by …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 4 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 7× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2832-4048 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Muscle physiology is the study of how muscles function, encompassing the mechanisms of muscle contraction, the generation of force and movement, and the ways muscles obtain and use energy. At its core is the sliding-filament mechanism, in which the proteins actin and myosin interact, powered by ATP and regulated by calcium, to shorten muscle fibers and produce tension. The field also examines the structural proteins that give muscle its elasticity and resilience, the electrical and chemical signals that trigger contraction, the different fiber types and their metabolic properties, and how muscles adapt to exercise, disuse, aging, and disease. Understanding muscle physiology is important across medicine, rehabilitation, sports science, nutrition, and ergonomics, because it underlies human movement, strength, fatigue, and recovery. The Skeletal Muscle journal from OpenAccessPub, which hosts this page, publishes peer-reviewed, open-access research on muscle structure and function. Related OpenAccessPub work has investigated the elastic properties of the muscle protein projectin and the use of transcriptomics to analyze Skeletal Muscle, reflecting interest in the molecular basis of muscle mechanics and adaptation. This page gathers open-access scholarship relevant to muscle physiology.

Research published in this journal

4 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 4 articles above have been cited 7 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Muscle Physiology, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Skeletal Muscle (ISSN 2832-4048).

Journal editorial board
Gerhard Meissner · United States Min Du · United States Jeong-Rae Kim · South Korea

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