Myotonic disorders are a group of heterogeneous, inherited, neuromuscular disorders characterized by a shared symptom called myotonia. Myotonia can be described as an inability to relax a contraction ...

Weak Voluntary Muscles: Skeletal Muscle Diseases, Neuromuscular Disorders ... through the release of neurotransmitters at the neuromuscular junction, the space between a nerve cell and muscle fiber.

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 ...

Combining neuromuscular electrical stimulation with resistance training boosts muscle growth and strength while potentially improving metabolic health and lowering diabetes risk. Credit: ...

whose lab focuses on repairing damaged heart muscle with stem-cell therapy. Because these particles are extremely small, the scientists created a technique they called near-field electrophysiology ...

Although ALS has historically been characterized as a motor neuron disease, there is evidence that motor neurons degenerate in a retrograde manner, beginning in the periphery at the neuromuscular ...

The ECM (extracellular matrix) provides the microenvironmental niche sensed by resident vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). Aging and disease are associated with dramatic changes in ECM composition ...

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 ...