The observed leg and tail outline are also in agreement with reconstructed theropod musculature using fossil bones studied through an EPB-based approach, validating this method.
Nucleic acids were isolated from musculature using the PureGene protocol (Gentra Systems), with template DNA quantified on a Nanodrop spectrophotometer.
Proximal outcome measures will be assessed at the conclusion of AIT (a 12 week training period) and include imaging of deep lumbar musculature using real-time ultrasound imaging and beliefs about LBP by self-report questionnaire.
A repeated-measures design was implemented where 12 healthy individuals were tested for cortical excitability to the ankle musculature using transcranial magnetic stimulation, reflexive excitability using the Hoffmann reflex, and ankle joint stiffness using arthrometry before and after 30 min of ambulation with a boot immobilizer, pneumatic leg splint, or barefoot.
EMG wire electrodes were inserted contralaterally into the nuchal musculature using blunt dissection techniques.
Currently available measures of vestibular lateralised asymmetry focus either on the oculomotor system using caloric vestibular stimulation, or the neck musculature using bone or air-conducted sound vestibular stimulation.
After CT-scanning and digitally reconstructing the skull, Taylor's team computer-modelled different possible arrangements of Psittacosaurus musculature and used an engineering method called finite element analysis (FEA) to test the bite forces and stress experienced in the skull during feeding.
"As long as you stress the musculature in a similar manner, it doesn't matter if you're using a Bowflex or free weights or a similar device," said Glenn A. Gaesser, a professor of exercise physiology at the University of Virginia.
Forty to sixty minutes after injection, HL musculature were imaged with a small animal PET scanner (GE Healthcare, eXplore Vista DR), using a photopeak window of 250-700 keV for a duration of 30 minutes.
Using a handheld dynamometer (TKK 5101; Takei, Tokyo, Japan) the maximum isometric force that the musculature of the hand and arm can generate was determined.
