The muscle transmembrane protein Vangl2 helps organize the development and maintenance of connections between muscles and motor neurons, a study concludes. A skeletal muscle ... s changing the shape ...

Benjamin Binder-Markey, DPT, PhD, directs the Multiscale Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory at ... Our work focuses on understanding how skeletal muscle adapts following injury or disease and ...

The ability of skeletal muscles to contract allows for our bodies to move -; from walking and jumping to breathing and blinking our eyes. All skeletal muscle contractions originate at the junction ...

B) Panel show two larval multinucleated muscles, VL3 and VL4 (Red, actin, phalloidin) used in our studies. The neuromuscular ... are generating human skeletal muscle from human pluripotent stem cells.