Frontiers in Skeletal Muscle Physiology is a Specialty Section of Frontiers in Physiology.
Frontiers in Skeletal Muscle Physiology, a specialty section of Frontiers in Physiology, intends to provide a forum for the dissemination of the newest knowledge of skeletal muscle function to the broadest possible readership. Contributions reporting all aspects of normal skeletal muscle function and pathophysiology are welcome. Areas include, but are not limited to, neuromuscular transmission, membrane excitability and excitation-contraction coupling, single molecule (e.g., myosin, titin, myosin binding protein-C) dynamics, single cell properties, comparative and integrative muscle biology, adaptations to changes in workload or environmental stimuli, skeletal muscle mechanics as a component of integrated motor functions (e.g., swimming, flight, terrestrial locomotion), specialized muscle systems, and consequences of induced or pathology-related changes in gene expression. Reports of studies that advance the understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that drive cross-bridges during muscle force generation, shortening and relaxation are welcome. Authors are encouraged to discuss their results in an integrated manner to facilitate the understanding of new findings among all muscle biologists, regardless of their particular areas of expertise. Skeletal muscle in invertebrate and vertebrates is an unusually heterogeneous tissue with respect to protein isoform expression patterns, and has a remarkable ability to adapt to different conditions. This Specialty Section welcomes contributions that provide insights gained from the study of novel, as well as more traditional, muscle systems, as an enticing multitude of frontiers remains to be explored.
Frontiers in Skeletal Muscle Physiology welcomes the following
tier 1 article types: Book Review, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Review and Specialty Grand Challenge.
All articles must be submitted directly to Frontiers in Skeletal Muscle Physiology, where they are processed by the associate and review editors of the Specialty Section.
All articles published in Frontiers in Skeletal Muscle Physiology will be subjected to the
Frontiers Evaluation System after online publication. Authors of the
original research articles with the highest impact, as judged by many expert readers, will be invited by the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Physiology to write a prestigious Frontiers
Focused Review - a tier 2 article. This is referred to as "
democratic tiering". The selection is based on the reader impact over a 4-month period from the date of publication. The selected high impact articles are re-written in a review style centered on the original discovery, and aim to address the wider audience across all of Physiology.