Kinesiology 531 - Skeletal Muscle Biology

This course will provide students with knowledge of multiple aspects of skeletal muscle biology. The material will include information about the basics of muscle contraction, muscle activation and bioenergetics. Laboratory-based opportunities will be used for students to try/experience various techniques commonly used to study muscle function from the molecular to whole muscle levels.

Open to graduate students in Kinesiology only. Students should have taken, at a minimum, one year of Anatomy and Physiology. In addition, courses in biochemistry, biomechanics, biophysics, neuroscience, vascular physiology, comparative physiology and metabolism may be useful.

This course is a Physiology KIN Core.