Sports medicine & Kinesiology
First wearable health sensor for monitoring muscle atrophy
Researchers at The Ohio State University have fabricated the first wearable sensor designed to detect and monitor muscle atrophy.
Mar 17, 2023
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News tagged with muscle atrophy
Gerontology & Geriatrics
Resistance training improves sleep quality and reduces inflammation in older people with sarcopenia
Sarcopenia is the decline of skeletal muscle mass with age, leading to loss of muscle strength (to move objects, shake hands etc.) and performance (walking and making other routine movements effectively). It involves chronic ...
Mar 2, 2023
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Medical research
Pathogenesis of skeletal muscle lesions in spinal muscular atrophy
Professor Megumu K. Saito and his colleagues have revealed that SMN, a protein involved in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), promotes the functional maturation of mitochondria by regulating miRNA expression along with MYOD1 ...
Feb 17, 2023
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Helping wasting muscles build back better
Muscles waste as a result of not being exercised enough, as happens quickly with a broken limb that has been immobilized in a cast, and more slowly in people reaching an advanced age. Muscle atrophy, how clinicians refer ...
Nov 14, 2022
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Cardiology
New viral vectors for targeted gene therapy of heart muscle cells
Gene therapies aim to cure severe, barely treatable monogentic diseases caused by a defect in a single gene. Medical hopes are correspondingly high. Some gene therapies have already been approved in Europe—for example, ...
Aug 2, 2022
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Health
Pool neck floats are a danger to babies, FDA warns
Neck floats marketed for babies to use in water can lead to serious injury or death, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned this week.
Jun 29, 2022
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Medications
Vitamin C could help reduce toxic side effects of common cancer treatment
A study conducted in rats suggests that taking vitamin C may help to counteract the muscle atrophy that is a common side effect of the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin. Although clinical studies would be needed to determine ...
Apr 4, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Quadricep muscle contracts differently after ACL reconstruction, may contribute to lingering weakness
After an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery, it's common to experience quadriceps weakness, which was thought to be caused primarily by muscle atrophy, or shrinkage.
Nov 2, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers develop tools to measure skeletal muscle function in patients with mitochondrial disease
Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) successfully developed and validated a new outcome measure to monitor disease severity and progression in patients with impaired skeletal muscle function caused by ...
Sep 1, 2021
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Cardiology
Cardiac atrophy findings may set course for preventing harm from long space flights
In many situations, heart muscle cells do not respond to external stresses in the same ways that skeletal muscle cells do. But under some conditions, heart and skeletal muscles can both waste away at fatally rapid rates, ...
Jun 24, 2021
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