Skeletal muscles are the voluntary, striated muscles attached to the skeleton that produce movement, maintain posture, stabilise joints, and generate body heat. Composed of bundles of elongated muscle fibres containing the contractile proteins actin and myosin, they contract in response to signals from motor nerves,…
Skeletal muscles are the voluntary, striated muscles attached to the skeleton that produce movement, maintain posture, stabilise joints, and generate body heat. Composed of bundles of elongated muscle fibres containing the contractile proteins actin and myosin, they contract in response to signals from motor nerves, converting chemical energy into mechanical force. Skeletal Muscle is highly adaptable, changing in size, strength, and endurance in response to use, training, ageing, disuse, and disease, and its mechanical properties, including stiffness and the delay between activation and force production, shape how efficiently movement is carried out. The journal Skeletal Muscle publishes peer-reviewed research on the structure, function, adaptation, and disorders of muscle tissue. Relevant work in this collection includes a study of the effects of long-term spaceflight on the mechanical properties of the human triceps surae muscle, examining electromechanical delay and musculo-tendinous stiffness, and analysis of muscle activation signals during gait in Parkinson's disease compared with healthy controls. This page gathers open-access scholarship relevant to Skeletal Muscle physiology, adaptation, and movement, supporting evidence-based understanding of how muscles generate and control force across health and disease.
11 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 11 articles above have been cited 91 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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