How do muscles actually contract? There's a lot involved in the process. And in this video, we talk about muscle contraction at the molecular level. We'll discuss sarcomeres, actin, myosin, the muscle action potential and the roles of...

This live-action video program is about muscle function. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...

With epithelial tissue and connective tissue down, it's time to learn about the third type of tissue, and that's muscle tissue. This makes up all the muscles in our bodies, and it comes in three types. Those are skeletal muscle, cardiac...

We've learned about the types of muscle, including skeletal muscle, and we know then when these muscles contract, we are able to move our bodies around. But how exactly does this happen on the molecular level? There is an astonishing...