Voluntary muscles, also known as skeletal muscles, are muscles that can be consciously controlled, such as the muscles of your limbs, head, neck, and body. They are attached to bones and respond ...

A multi-omics study reveals that impaired branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) catabolism is a key driver of sarcopenia, ...

Insulin resistance precedes and predicts the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), a chronic disease that causes high ...

skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Only cardiac muscle tissue, comprising cells called myocytes, is present in the heart. In this article, we discuss the structure and function of cardiac muscle tissue.

To identify the mechanisms by which a short-term central nervous system (CNS) infection caused long-lasting motor problems, the researchers assessed the structure and appearance of cells in the ...

No study has systematically examined the impact of repeated bouts of muscle damage and repair over a number of years on the structure and function of skeletal muscle. Accordingly, the aim of this ...

A new artificial biohybrid hand uses "sushi-like" bundles of thin human skeletal muscle fibers to manipulate its soft robotic ...