{"id":7242,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/agonist_muscle\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:54:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:45","slug":"agonist_muscle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/agonist_muscle\/","title":{"rendered":"Agonist muscle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A muscle in a state of contraction that opposes the action of another muscle termed the antagonist. &nbsp;It is the prime mover or muscle directly responsible for a change in position of a part of the body. &nbsp;It can also be defined as one member of a group of muscles whose line of application produces a given moment at a joint.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"antagonist_muscle\">Antagonist muscle<\/a>, <a href=\"central_pattern_generator_-cpg-\">Central pattern generator (CPG)<\/a>, <a href=\"isotonic_contraction\">Isotonic contraction<\/a>, <a href=\"moment_of_force\">Moment of force<\/a>, <a href=\"monosynaptic_and_polysynaptic_reflexes\">Monosynaptic and polysynaptic reflexes<\/a>, <a href=\"primary_motor_cortex\">Primary motor cortex<\/a>, <a href=\"reflex\">Reflex<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A muscle in a state of contraction that opposes the action of another muscle termed the antagonist. &nbsp;It is the prime mover or muscle directly responsible for a change in position of a part of the body. &nbsp;It can also be defined as one member of a group of muscles whose line of application produces &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/agonist_muscle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Agonist muscle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}