GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Alongside agonist muscles, antagonist muscles function as part of a pair that work in tandem to allow the joints and limbs to perform more complex movements. These muscles move in the opposite direction to the agonist muscles, and offset the force these muscles exert so that we don’t damage our fragile joints.

Detailed explanation-2: -Antagonistic muscles are those muscles which produce movements in an antagonistic pair of muscles by opposing the movement of the agonistic muscle . i.e. when one contacts the other relaxes and vice versa. Example-biceps and triceps, quadriceps and hamstrings.