ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology1996
Mapping motor neuron activity to overt behavior in the leech. I. Passive biomechanical properties of the body wall.
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- Passive skeletal muscle can function as an osmotic engine.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Mechanics dictate where and how freshwater planarians fission.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Serotonin modulates muscle function in the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana.Biology letters · 2011Article
- Feeding-mediated distention inhibits swimming in the medicinal leech.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2010Article
- Leech locomotion: swimming, crawling, and decisions.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2007Review
- Muscle function in animal movement: passive mechanical properties of leech muscle.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2007Article
- Spontaneous electrical activity and behavior in the leech hirudo medicinalis.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2007Article
- Passive hinge forces in the feeding apparatus of Aplysia aid retraction during biting but not during swallowing.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2004Article
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Abstract
As an initial step in constructing a quantitative biomechanical model of the medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis), we determined the passive properties of its body wall over the physiological range of dimensions. The major results of this study were: 1. The ellipsoidal cross section of resting leeches is maintained by tonic muscle activation as well as forces inherent in the structure of the body wall (i.e., residual stress). 2. The forces required for longitudinal and circumferential stretch to maximum physiological dimensions were similar in magnitude. Cutting out pieces of body wall did not affect the passive longitudinal or circumferential properties of body wall away from the edges of the cut. 3. The strain (i.e., the percentage change in dimension of different body segments when subject to the same force was identical, despite differences in muscle cross-sections. 4. Serotonin, a known modulator of tension in leech muscles, affected passive forces at all physiological muscle lengths. This suggests that the longitudinal muscle is responsible for at least part of the passive tension of the body wall. 5. We propose a simple viscoelastic model of the body wall. This model captures the dynamics of the passive responses of the leech body wall to imposed step changes in length. Using steady-state passive tensions predicted by the viscoelastic model we estimate the forces required to maintain the leech at any given length over the physiological range.
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