While building a muscle damage model in a cultured system, a research collaboration between Kumamoto University and Nagasaki University in Japan has found that components leaking from broken muscle ...

Researchers building a model of muscle damage in a cultured system found that components leaking from broken muscle fibers activate ''satellite cells,'' which are muscle stem cells. While attempting ...

Skeletal muscle is the type of muscle that controls movement. Problems with these muscles can be minor, life-threatening, or ongoing problems that make it hard to perform basic daily activities.

Atherosclerosis underlies most heart attacks and strokes and is now recognized as a chronic inflammatory disease rather than ...

Skeletal muscle is the largest non-adipose tissue body component and serves both voluntary and involuntary life-sustaining functions. Skeletal muscle composition can be considered in terms of atomic, ...

The human heart, often described as the body's engine, is a remarkable organ that tirelessly beats to keep us alive. At the core of this vital organ, intricate processes occur when it contracts, where ...

When somebody says a workout will make you toned, they usually mean something else—it's a word to sell an aspiration of being ...