The new research reveals a novel mechanism for signal transmission in brain cells and helps answer an open question in neuroscience about how intracellular signals travel over long distances in ...

This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

The neuromuscular junction contains three types of nicotinic ... This open channel allows sodium and calcium ions to flow into the muscle cells and allows intracellular potassium to move outside ...

Most calories are broken down by continuously active organs, like the brain, heart, kidneys and liver, each of which burns 20 times as many calories as relaxed skeletal muscle. Meanwhile ...

"Biology uses chemically powered molecular machines for every biological process, such as transporting chemicals around the cell, information processing or reproduction. By replicating nature at ...

This is after police discovered skeletal remains of her husband inside her house in Garden Compound, almost one and a half years after his family could not establish his whereabouts. The remains of ...

and lead to improvements in strength and muscle building. (Pexels) The study simplified the process of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES). The process involves pads placed on the skin ...

Cell therapy of skeletal muscles is a promising approach for the prevention of muscular diseases and age-related muscle atrophy. However, cell transplantation to treat muscle atrophy that does not ...