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 ...

Voluntary muscles, also known as skeletal ... majority of neuromuscular disorders are genetic or caused by problems with the immune system. Nerves communicate with muscles through the release of ...

Sarcopenia is an age-related condition characterized by the progressive loss of skeletal muscle ... accelerating muscle atrophy (7). Moreover, studies show that increased mitochondrial ROS (mtROS) can ...

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UTEP, El Paso, Texas, USA. Mechanical Engineering Department, UTEP, El Paso, Texas, USA. [1] M.R. Al-Mulla , F ...

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 ...

(Pexels) The study simplified the process of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES). The process involves pads placed on the skin which deliver small electric pulses, making the muscles contract.

New research shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those responsible for propagating molecular signals that make muscles contract are also responsible for transmitting signals in ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease.

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 ...

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 ...