Muscle Energetics

Alumni 10 Center Dr, Bethesda, MD, 20814, US 301-496-2679 Muscle Energetics The Muscle Energetics Laboratory, led by Dr. Brian Glancy, focuses on how energy is distributed to sustain contractile power in striated muscle cells. Videos

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A fly-through rendering of the mitochondrial network within an oxidative mouse skeletal muscle cell. Mitochondria are colored according to their location relative to the adjacent contractile structures.	Fly-through rendering of the interior structures of a newborn mouse skeletal muscle highlighting cell and organelle membrane as well as myosin filaments.
3D rendering of the interior of a mouse retina mitochondrion. Outer membrane (transparent), inner boundary membrane (transparent), inner membrane cristae (magenta), matrix (yellow), and nucleoids (blue) are shown.	3D rendering of the Z-disk sheets (light green) within the jump muscle of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Individual z-disks (various colors) and contractile sarcomeres (magenta) are also shown.
3D rendering of the branching contractile structures within a newborn mouse skeletal muscle. Each color represents an individual myofibril segment. The cell membrane (green) and a nucleus (cyan) are also shown.	3D rendering of the interior of a newborn mouse skeletal muscle. Mitochondria (red), sarcotubular network (green), lipid droplets (yellow), cell membranes (white), and myosin filaments (blue) are shown.

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