Temporal Muscle

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 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. 
  • Contemporary solutions for the treatment of facial nerve paralysis. 
  • Jaw muscle function and wishboning of the mandible during mastication in macaques and baboons. 
  • Jaw-muscle fiber architecture in tufted capuchins favors generating relatively large muscle forces without compromising jaw gape. 
  • Proteomics and immunohistochemistry identify the expression of α-cardiac myosin heavy chain in the jaw-closing muscles of sooty mangabeys (order Primates). 
  • Regional variation in IIM myosin heavy chain expression in the temporalis muscle of female and male baboons (Papio anubis). 
  • Scaling of the mandible in squirrels. 
  • Temporalis function in anthropoids and strepsirrhines: an EMG study. 
  • The jaw adductors of strepsirrhines in relation to body size, diet, and ingested food size. 
  • The relationships among jaw-muscle fiber architecture, jaw morphology, and feeding behavior in extant apes and modern humans. 
  • Vascular headache from extracranial venous malformation. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Roth, V. Louise, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology