In a surprising discovery, scientists have found that the heart possesses 'sweet taste' receptors, similar to those on our tongues, and that stimulating these receptors with sweet substances can ...

Background: Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) or Kennedy disease [OMIM: 313200] is a rare X-linked neuromuscular disease. Patients commonly present with muscle cramps ... affect other parts of ...

Muscular dystrophy (MD) represents a group of inherited muscle disorders that primarily cause muscle weakness and muscle wasting, though some types of the disease also present with other ...

A protein that restricts muscle growth also has an unexpected role in the reproductive system, studies 1 in rodents have revealed. Researchers have been searching for ways to inhibit the protein ...

That sneaky upward creep is referred to as cardiac drift, and we’re here to help you understand it and keep it from derailing your run. Cardiac drift is a physiological phenomenon where ...

With the recent surge in popularity of weight loss drugs like Ozempic, altogether called GLP-1s, there has been renewed scientific interest in understanding how our bodies regulate muscle growth.

Cardiac muscle is striated like skeletal muscle, but is controlled by both the autonomic nervous system and its own pacemaker cells, causing it to contract automatically and rhythmically. Weak ...

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (Nasdaq: DYN), a clinical-stage neuromuscular disease company focused on advancing life-transforming therapeutics for people living with genetically driven diseases, today ...

In this prospective study involving 37 Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients aged 8–18 years and older, we examined the impact of neurological and cardiac factors on quality ... leading to ...

These contract and expand in response to electrical impulses from the nervous system. Pacemaker cells generate electrical impulses, or action potentials, that tell cardiac muscle cells to contract ...