Mastication

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comment on: the instantaneous center of rotation during human jaw opening and its significance in interpreting the functional meaning of condylar translation (Chen, x., 1998, Am J phys anthropol 106:35-46) 
  • A method for discrimination of noise and EMG signal regions recorded during rhythmic behaviors. 
  • A model for comparison of masticatory effectiveness in primates. 
  • A model of temporomandibular joint function in anthropoid primates based on condylar movements during mastication. 
  • A preliminary analysis of correlated evolution in Mammalian chewing motor patterns. 
  • A preliminary analysis of correlations between chewing motor patterns and mandibular morphology across mammals. 
  • A preliminary analysis of the relationship between jaw-muscle architecture and jaw-muscle electromyography during chewing across primates. 
  • Are we looking for loads in all the right places? New research directions for studying the masticatory apparatus of New World monkeys. 
  • Biomechanics of the mandible of Macaca mulatta during the power stroke of mastication: Loading, deformation, and strain regimes and the impact of food type. 
  • Changes in orientation of attritional wear facets with implications for jaw motion in a mixed longitudinal sample of Propithecus edwardsi from Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. 
  • Chewing efficiency and occlusal functional morphology in modern humans. 
  • Diet and dental topography in pitheciine seed predators. 
  • Dietary consistency and plasticity of masseter fiber architecture in postweaning rabbits. 
  • EMG of the digastric muscle in gibbon and orangutan: functional consequences of the loss of the anterior digastric in orangutans. 
  • Effects of dopamine D1 and D2 receptor antagonists on oral activity in rats. 
  • Evidence for a tradeoff between retention time and chewing efficiency in large mammalian herbivores. 
  • First In-Human Experience With Inhaled Acetylsalicylic Acid for Immediate Platelet Inhibition: Comparison With Chewed and Swallowed Acetylsalicylic Acid. 
  • Food material properties and mandibular load resistance abilities in large-bodied hominoids. 
  • Functional and evolutionary significance of the recruitment and firing patterns of the jaw adductors during chewing in Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi). 
  • Functional correlates of the position of the axis of rotation of the mandible during chewing in non-human primates. 
  • In vivo bone strain and finite element modeling of a rhesus macaque mandible during mastication. 
  • In vivo bone strain in the mandibular corpus of Sapajus during a range of oral food processing behaviors. 
  • Jaw movement and tooth use in recent and fossil primates. 
  • Jaw-Muscle Fiber Architecture and Leverage in the Hard-Object Feeding Sooty Mangabey are not Structured to Facilitate Relatively Large Bite Forces Compared to Other Papionins. 
  • Jaw-muscle electromyography during chewing in Belanger's treeshrews (Tupaia belangeri). 
  • Jaw-muscle fiber architecture in tufted capuchins favors generating relatively large muscle forces without compromising jaw gape. 
  • Mandibular corpus bone strain in goats and alpacas: implications for understanding the biomechanics of mandibular form in selenodont artiodactyls. 
  • Masseter electromyography during chewing in ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta). 
  • Mastication causing segmental spinal motion in common cervical orthoses. 
  • Masticatory motor patterns in ungulates: a quantitative assessment of jaw-muscle coordination in goats, alpacas and horses. 
  • Muscle architecture dynamics modulate performance of the superficial anterior temporalis muscle during chewing in capuchins. 
  • Ontogeny of feeding motor patterns in infant rats: an electromyographic analysis of suckling and chewing. 
  • Orbito-Masticatory Syndrome. 
  • Phase II jaw movements and masseter muscle activity during chewing in Papio anubis. 
  • Primate dietary ecology in the context of food mechanical properties. 
  • Regional variation in IIM myosin heavy chain expression in the temporalis muscle of female and male baboons (Papio anubis). 
  • Rethinking primate origins 
  • Scaling of rotational inertia of primate mandibles. 
  • Technical note: Dental microwear textures of "Phase I" and "Phase II" facets. 
  • Temporalis function in anthropoids and strepsirrhines: an EMG study. 
  • The effect of differences in methodology among some recent applications of shearing quotients. 
  • The expanded mandibular condyle of the Megaladapidae. 
  • The functional adaptations of primate molar teeth. 
  • The great imitator: Rocky Mountain spotted fever occurring after hospitalization for unrelated illnesses. 
  • The instantaneous center of rotation of the mandible in nonhuman primates. 
  • The jaw adductors of strepsirrhines in relation to body size, diet, and ingested food size. 
  • Trends in the evolution of primate mastication.