scholarly journals A STUDY ON INFLUENCE OF CLASSICAL INDIAN DANCE PRACTICE ON CARDIO – RESPIRATORY WELL BEING

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 4643-4648
Author(s):  
Nisha Kumari ◽  
M Gautam Shetty
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Respiratory System ◽  
Skeletal Muscles ◽  
Vital Capacity ◽  
Smooth Muscles ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cardiac Muscles ◽  
Classical Indian Dance ◽  
Breathing Mechanism ◽  
Internal Body

Dance is a Rhythmic form of exercise. It involves slow to intense kinetic footwork, swaying hand gestures and subtle eye - facial expressions. It activates skeletal muscles, stimulates functioning of smooth muscles and enhances the contractility of cardiac muscles. Along with this dance practice also alters breathing mechanism with reference to enhancement of vital capacity. Thus, dancing regularly helps the overall functionality of Cardio – Respiratory system which changes the individual’s wellbeing. The following study analyses the mode of action of dancing over the system of the internal body and explains the same with Physical and subjective parameters. Regular dancing helps an individual in betterment of functions of cardiac and respiratory system.

The Organization of Nervous Systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Dale Purves
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscles ◽  
Smooth Muscles ◽  
Neural Function ◽  
Neural Processing ◽  
Nervous Systems ◽  
Motor Responses ◽  
Receptor Cells ◽  
Neural Information ◽  
Cardiac Muscles ◽  
Emotion Memory

Nervous systems employ some or all of the senses to convert energy at the level of receptor cells into neural information. This conversion generates electrochemical signals carried centrally that, via a series of additional neurons, determine behavior. The most obvious behaviors are those mediated by skeletal muscles, cardiac muscles, smooth muscles, and glands. But motor responses are members of a longer list that includes attention, perception, emotion, memory, thought, motivation, and others. How to describe these additional “systems,” and how to decipher what the relevant circuits do and how they do it, are unanswered questions. This chapter describes the main features of neural processing, asking whether the principle of neural function is simply to make associations that lead to useful behaviors.

Enhanced Myotoxicity and Involvement of both Type I and II Fibers in Monensin-Tiamulin Toxicosis in Pigs

1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Umemura ◽  
A. Kawaminami ◽  
M. Goryo ◽  
C. Itakura
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscles ◽  
Type I ◽  
Left Auricle ◽  
Simultaneous Administration ◽  
Cardiac Muscles ◽  
Histochemical Examination

Simultaneous administration of monensin and tiamulin to pigs resulted in enhanced myotoxicity. Skeletal muscles of tongue, diaphragm and legs were preferentially affected, whereas the masseter, longissimus thoracis and cardiac muscles, including the left auricle, were spared. Histochemical examination revealed an involvement of both type I and II fibers of skeletal muscles.

scholarly journals How the Entertaining Effects of Movies Help People to Reduce Chronic Stress and Increase Happiness

2021 ◽  
pp. 102-105
Author(s):  
Zhesheng (Jason) Xu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Chronic Stress ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Entertainment Industry ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Emotional Event ◽  
Scientific Experiments

With the increasing stress from work and study that people face today, easy-to-access entertainment to release chronic stress and increase happiness would arouse more popularity. As a traditional entertainment industry, Movie is easy to access by going to the cinema or watching online, which has become an increasingly globalized business. The present research was on how the entertaining effects of movies are associated with psychological well-being. It provides a study on three film types, comedies, tearjerkers, and thrilling movies. Comic movies are usually welcome, which bring people happiness by funny plots. Moreover, many scientific experiments made before verified that people will unconsciously mimic the facial expressions of characters in comedies, which turns out to affect the experience of the same emotion of happiness through the integration between the body and brain. Tearjerkers may bring people tears. However, an experiment made by Gracˇanin, Vingerhoets, Kardum, Šantek,& Šimic´ (2015), provided evidence that after the initial deterioration of mood following crying, it takes some time for the mood, not just to recover, but also to become even less negative than before the emotional event. Per Sapolsky, R.M, scary and thrilling movies generate moderate glucocorticoid elevation, which turns out to trigger the release of dopamine from pleasure pathways and gain a sense of anticipatory pleasure. Besides the above mentioned, there are also general benefits of movies, such as social connections, a distraction from worries, and increased flow. All of those make movies good activities to reduce chronic stress and increase happiness.

scholarly journals Physiological and Emotional Responses of Disabled Children to Therapeutic Clowns: A Pilot Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shauna Kingsnorth ◽  
Stefanie Blain ◽  
Patricia McKeever
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Physiological Arousal ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Television Exposure ◽  
And Behavior

This pilot study examined the effects of Therapeutic Clowning on inpatients in a pediatric rehabilitation hospital. Ten disabled children with varied physical and verbal expressive abilities participated in all or portions of the data collection protocol. Employing a mixed-method, single-subject ABAB study design, measures of physiological arousal, emotion and behavior were obtained from eight children under two conditions—television exposure and therapeutic clown interventions. Four peripheral autonomic nervous system (ANS) signals were recorded as measures of physiological arousal; these signals were analyzed with respect to measures of emotion (verbal self reports of mood) and behavior (facial expressions and vocalizations). Semistructured interviews were completed with verbally expressive children (n= 7) and nurses of participating children (n= 13). Significant differences among children were found in response to the clown intervention relative to television exposure. Physiologically, changes in ANS signals occurred either more frequently or in different patterns. Emotionally, children's (self) and nurses' (observed) reports of mood were elevated positively. Behaviorally, children exhibited more positive and fewer negative facial expressions and vocalizations of emotion during the clown intervention. Content and themes extracted from the interviews corroborated these findings. The results suggest that this popular psychosocial intervention has a direct and positive impact on hospitalized children. This pilot study contributes to the current understanding of the importance of alternative approaches in promoting well-being within healthcare settings.

scholarly journals Visitors’ emotional expression in urban forest parks: What can we know about on-line facial images from the Social Networking Services?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoming Guan ◽  
Honxu Wei ◽  
Xingyuan He ◽  
Zhibin Ren ◽  
Xin Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Networking Services ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
The Social ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
Facial Images

Urban forests can attract visitors by the function of well-being improvement, which can be evaluated by analyzing the big-data from the social networking services (SNS). In this study, 935 facial images of visitors to nine urban forest parks were screened and downloaded from check-in records in the SNS platform of Sina Micro-Blog at cities of Changchun, Harbin, and Shenyang in Northeast China. Images were recognized for facial expressions by FaceReaderTM to read out eight emotional expressions: neutral, happy, sad, angry, surprised, scared, disgusted, and contempt. The number of images by women was larger than that by men. Compared to images from Changchun, those from Shenyang harbored higher neutral degree, which showed a positive relationship with the distance of forest park from downtown. In Changchun, the angry, surprised, and disgusted degrees decreased with the increase of distance of forest park from downtown, while the happy and disgusted degrees showed the same trend in Shenyang. In forest parks at city center and remote-rural areas, the neutral degree was positively correlated with the angry, surprised and contempt degrees but negatively correlated with the happy and disgusted degrees. In the sub-urban area the correlation of neutral with both surprised and disgusted degrees disappeared. Our study can be referred to by urban planning to evaluate the perceived well-being in urban forests through analyzing facial expressions of images from SNS.

The impact of competition effort on the vital capacity of football players according to the playing positions.

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 0027
Author(s):  
فراس عبدالحميد خالد
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory System ◽  
Vital Capacity ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Youth Football ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Impact

The study focused on identifying the effect of competition effort on the level of vital capacity of young football players according to their playing centers. The researchers selected their sample from the (82) Fallujah clubs, the Golan club and the youth football stamina club, which numbered (82). The research problem focused on the lack of clarity of vision in identifying  The level of respiratory competence represented by the vital capacity of young football players according to their playing centers. The study aimed to know the immediate effect of competition effort on the level of vital capacity of young football players and to identify the level of that variable according to the centers of playing football.  For young football players and the existence of differences in the results of the post-test in the level of vital capacity of young players according to the centers of playing football. The researchers used the descriptive approach (case study) and conducted their pre and post tests according to the scientific foundations. The researchers concluded that the match effort has an effect on the level of vital capacity for all  Players are in different playing lines and that effect on the level of vital capacity was varied according to  The lines of play and the lines most affected was the midfield, followed by the defense line, then the offensive line and finally the goalkeepers. The researchers recommended that additional studies be conducted to know the effect of the match effort on other variables of the respiratory system and other functional devices and to conduct other studies to find out the effect of competition effort on other groups such as juniors and   advanced.

scholarly journals Architecture of the sarcomere matrix of skeletal muscle: immunoelectron microscopic evidence that suggests a set of parallel inextensible nebulin filaments anchored at the Z line.

1988 ◽  
Vol 107 (6) ◽  
pp. 2199-2212 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Wang ◽  
J Wright
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Skeletal Muscles ◽  
Smooth Muscles ◽  
Psoas Muscle ◽  
Immunoblot Analysis ◽  
Cross Reactivity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Myosin Filaments ◽  
In Series

Nebulin, a giant myofibrillar protein (600-800 kD) that is abundant (3%) in the sarcomere of a wide range of skeletal muscles, has been proposed as a component of a cytoskeletal matrix that coexists with actin and myosin filaments within the sarcomere. Immunoblot analysis indicates that although polypeptides of similar size are present in cardiac and smooth muscles at low abundance, those proteins show no immunological cross-reactivity with skeletal muscle nebulin. Gel analysis reveals that nebulins in various skeletal muscles of rabbit belong to at least two classes of size variants. A monospecific antibody has been used to localize nebulin by immunoelectron microscopy in a mechanically split rabbit psoas muscle fiber preparation. Labeled split fibers exhibit six pairs of stripes of antibody-imparted transverse densities spaced at 0.1-1.0 micron from the Z line within each sarcomere. These epitopes maintain a fixed distance to the Z line irrespective of sarcomere length and do not exhibit the characteristic elastic stretch-response of titin epitopes within the I band domain. It is proposed that nebulin constitutes a set of inextensible filaments attached at one end to the Z line and that nebulin filaments are in parallel, and not in series, with titin filaments. Thus the skeletal muscle sarcomere may have two sets of nonactomyosin filaments: a set of I segment-linked nebulin filaments and a set of A segment-linked titin filaments. This four-filament sarcomere model raises the possibility that nebulin and titin might act as organizing templates and length-determining factors for actin and myosin respectively.

scholarly journals Mitochondrial apoptotic signaling is elevated in cardiac but not skeletal muscle in the obese Zucker rat and is reduced with aerobic exercise

2008 ◽  
Vol 105 (6) ◽  
pp. 1934-1943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. Peterson ◽  
Randall W. Bryner ◽  
Amy Sindler ◽  
Jefferson C. Frisbee ◽  
Stephen E. Alway
Keyword(s):  
Cytochrome C ◽  
Exercise Training ◽  
Protein Expression ◽  
Skeletal Muscles ◽  
Zucker Rats ◽  
Mitochondrial Apoptosis ◽  
Apoptotic Signaling ◽  
Bax Protein ◽  
Cardiac Muscles ◽  
Cytosolic Cytochrome

Mitochondrial apoptosis and apoptotic signaling modulations by aerobic training were studied in cardiac and skeletal muscles of obese Zucker rats (OZR), a rodent model of metabolic syndrome. Comparisons were made between left ventricle, soleus, and gastrocnemius muscles from OZR ( n = 16) and aged-matched lean Zucker rats (LZR; n = 16) that were untrained ( n = 8) or aerobically trained on a treadmill for 9 wk ( n = 8). Cardiac Bcl-2 protein expression levels were ∼50% lower in the OZR compared with the LZR, with no difference in either of the skeletal muscles. Bax protein expression levels were similar in skeletal muscles of the OZR compared with the LZR. Furthermore, mitochondrial apoptotic signaling was not different in skeletal muscles of OZR and LZR groups. However, there was an approximate sevenfold increase in the Bax protein accumulation in the myocardial mitochondrial-rich protein fraction of the OZR compared with the LZR. Additionally, there was an increase in cytosolic cytochrome c released from the mitochondria, caspase-9 and caspase-3 activity, with a corresponding elevation in DNA fragmentation in the cardiac muscles of the OZR compared with the LZR. Exercise training reduced cardiac Bax protein levels, the mitochondrial localization of Bax, cytosolic cytochrome c, caspase activity, and DNA fragmentation in cardiac muscles of the OZR after exercise, with no change in the skeletal muscles. These data show that mitochondrial apoptosis is elevated in the cardiac but not skeletal muscles of the OZR, but aerobic exercise training was effective in reducing cardiac mitochondrial apoptotic signaling.

Studies on Adenylate Cyclase – Cyclic AMP System of the Myopathic Hamster (UM-X7.1) Skeletal and Cardiac Muscles

1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (10) ◽  
pp. 1122-1127 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. C. Harrow ◽  
J. N. Singh ◽  
G. Jasmin ◽  
N. S. Dhalla
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Cyclic Amp ◽  
Adenylate Cyclase ◽  
Skeletal Muscles ◽  
Normal Values ◽  
Cyclase Activity ◽  
Adenylate Cyclase Activity ◽  
Amp System ◽  
Cardiac Muscles ◽  
Muscle Homogenate

Cyclic AMP content, adenylate cyclase (EC 4.6.1.1) activity and phosphodiesterase I (EC 3.1.4.1) activity of the hind leg skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle in 60- and 150-day-old normal and myopathic (UM-X7.1) hamsters were examined. In 60-day-old myopathic animals, cardiac cyclic AMP levels were higher and phosphodiesterase I activity was lower, without any changes in the basal adenylate cyclase activity, whereas in 150-day-old myopathic hamsters, cardiac cyclic AMP and basal adenylate cyclase activity were lower, without any changes in the homogenate phosphodiesterase I activity. On the other hand, basal adenylate cyclase and phosphodiesterase I activities in the skeletal muscle homogenate from 60- and 150-day-old myopathic animals were not different from the normal values but the skeletal muscle cyclic AMP levels were significantly less in 60-day-old myopathic hamsters only. The plasma cyclic AMP levels in 60-day-old myopathic hamsters, unlike 150-day-old myopathic animals, were higher than the normal. Although these results reveal differences in myopathic cardiac and skeletal muscles, it is concluded that changes in adenylate cyclase – cyclic AMP system in myopathy are dependent upon the degree of disease.

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