Explain/Teach These Concepts to a Friend

1. Explain how muscle size is responsive to physiological cues.

2. Explain how a uniaxial cyclic stretch experiment is conducted, being sure to include all of the appropriate controls.

3. Explain how integrins, zyxin and Ena/VASP are involved in cytoskeletal reinforcement upon mechanical stretch, with an emphasis on constructing a linear pathway of events.