Neural crest cells in the most anterior part of the trunk, the cardiac crest, also generate fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells ... the skeletal neuromuscular junction are tightly covered by ...

The one exception of an involuntary muscle is the myocardium, or heart muscle. The myocardium is composed of a specialized type of muscle cell called cardiac muscle that is ... at the neuromuscular ...

Find out what happens to heart cells in space and how their adaptation could revolutionize heart disease treatment.

Researchers investigated the quantities of thousands of muscle proteins and found a possible new explanation for muscle memory. A study showed for the first time that muscles 'remember' training at ...

Heidelberg biochemists and structural biologists from Shanghai unravel the roles of two key regulatory factors in mRNA ...

Human cell models may never be as good as the real thing, but we need these models to be as close as possible to understand how diseases develop and progress, and whether treatments are effective.

Background Muscle wasting and weakness (sarcopenia) are commonly associated with COPD causing frailty and reduced quality of ...

Federal workers out of high-wage jobs are causing local restaurants, hotels and other hospitality businesses to report significant profit losses and a scramble to make up the difference. Business ...

It was then that Mr Tan – now 65 and working in a renovation company – joined the cardiac rehabilitation ... and an 8 per cent increase in muscle mass. Re-admission rates also decreased ...