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 ...

In particular, aberrant lipid metabolism is proposed to underlie denervation of neuromuscular junctions, mitochondrial dysfunction ... While TAG synthesis can take place in the brain, liver, heart, ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomedical Engineering have found that studying blood flow in leg ...

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 ...

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. An intervention, ...

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 ...

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 ...

There has never been a better time to get geeky about muscle growth — especially if you don't want to waste your gym time. In a new video, one of the researchers involved in many of these ...