prime mover

Examples of prime mover in the following topics:

• How Skeletal Muscles Produce Movements

  • Agonist muscles are those we typically associate with movement itself, and are thus sometimes referred to as prime movers.
  • The biceps brachii is the agonist, or primer mover, responsible for flexing the forearm.

• Sympathetic Responses

  • Some evolutionary theorists suggest that the sympathetic nervous system operated in early organisms to maintain survival since the sympathetic nervous system is responsible for priming the body for action.
  • One example of this priming is in the moments before waking, in which sympathetic outflow spontaneously increases in preparation for activity.
  • His theory states that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, priming the animal for fighting or fleeing.

• Fluids and Aging

  • Maintaining physiological function (health) in an aging population is of prime importance not only to the well-being of the aging individual, but also from a social perspective, helping to reduce the burden on medical services and systems.

• Aging and the Nervous System

  • The cerebral cortex can lose as much as 45% of its cells and the brain can weigh 7% less than in the prime of our lives.

• The Fight-or-Flight Response

  • His theory states that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, priming the animal for fighting or fleeing.

• Antigen-Presenting Cells

  • Some cells, however, are specially equipped to acquire and present antigen, and prime naive T cells.

• Disorders of the Basal Ganglia

  • Basal ganglia disease refers to a group of physical dysfunctions that occur when the group of nuclei in the brain, known as the basal ganglia, fail to properly suppress unwanted movements or to properly prime upper motor neuron circuits to initiate motor function.

• Rib Fracture, Dislocation, and Separation

  • The shoulder is a prime example of this .

• Hormonal Regulation of the Female Reproductive Cycle

  • It also causes endometrial cells to produce receptors for progesterone, which helps prime the endometrium to the late proliferative phase and the luteal phase.