Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Reaching global consensus for definition of sarcopenia
A new editorial paper titled "Global consensus for sarcopenia" has been published in Aging.
Jun 26, 2024
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News tagged with skeletal muscle cells
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Lab-grown muscles reveal mysteries of rare muscle diseases
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new technique to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B ...
Jun 21, 2024
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Cardiology
New study reveals the key role of mitochondrial proteins in cardiac regeneration
Mitochondria play an essential role in supplying the energy needed for correct cell function. Within mitochondria, energy production is generated by the respiratory chain, which is formed of five complexes called CI through ...
May 13, 2024
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
New insights into muscle health: How innervation influences the recovery process
Researchers from Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena and BTU (Cottbus) have identified the cause of changes in the behavior of muscle stem cells. The insights are the basis for more effective ...
Apr 2, 2024
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Heat stress may affect the muscles for longer than we think
People who experience heat stress during exercise may need more recovery time to let their muscles heal, according to a new mouse study published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative ...
Feb 13, 2024
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Uncovering the link to combating muscle atrophy caused by aging and immobility
The loss of muscle mass, or muscle atrophy, is a relatively common condition in today's aging and increasingly sedentary societies. While the disuse of muscles is the most frequent catalyst for muscle atrophy, there are several ...
Jan 12, 2024
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
New evidence explains how warming-up enhances muscle performance
Everybody knows the importance of warming up your muscles before a workout. But what is actually going on when we warm our muscles up, and are all muscles the same? You might be surprised to find out that the science behind ...
Oct 24, 2023
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Biomedical technology
Will module assembly become the next generation of engineering modality for vascularized organotypic tissues?
The promise of human organotypic tissues for tissue development, disease modeling, and drug testing is widely recognized, but limitations around cell density, vascular structure, and scale must be solved before that potential ...
Oct 24, 2023
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Diabetes
Study reveals how estrogen exerts its anti-diabetic effects
The quintessential female sex hormone estrogen stimulates cells that line blood vessels to deliver insulin to muscles, lowering blood sugar and protecting against type 2 diabetes, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers ...
Oct 23, 2023
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Immunology
Persistent T cells identified in the muscles of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies
In the first study of its kind, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and rheumatologists at Karolinska Sjukhuset have characterized T cells in the muscle tissue of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. They show ...
Aug 14, 2023
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