Two important structures for breathing are the intercostal muscles and diaphragm. As these muscles contract, the volume in our chest cavity increases, the inside pressure decreases and air moves in.

Your diaphragm is a little-discussed muscle that’s responsible for what passes through your digestive tract. While slowing down your breath can slow down your mind, but did you also know it can ...

The diaphragm is the most important breathing muscle. Researchers from Amsterdam UMC have found a new mechanism explaining diaphragm weakness that arises during mechanical ventilation in the ...

The sudden, involuntary spasm seems to come out of nowhere, but in reality, hiccups are usually triggered when something irritates your diaphragm, the muscle just below your lungs that’s ...

However, stretch in the orthogonal direction to the muscle fibers activated Ras-GTP, Raf-1, and Erk1/2 proteins, which up-regulated Ankrd2 expression through AP-1. Our data show the anisotropic ...

The impact causes the pressure to change in the diaphragm, which is the large muscle which divides your stomach and abdomen from your heart and lungs. The diaphragm goes into spasm and contracts ...

During exercise, our blood moves away from the diaphragm to the limbs. The diaphragm is the muscle that separates the stomach and abdomen from the heart and lungs. It's one of the main muscles ...