The skeletal system comprises 206 bones and has two main parts: the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton. The ...

Regulation of the blood pressure is a vital physiological process enabling the body to respond to immediately changing ...

A new study in rats shows that lactate, a substance found in the muscles, initiates a cascade of actions in the muscles that ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a neuromuscular disease causing progressive skeletal muscle weakness and fatigue. The ...

A University of North Florida biology professor was awarded a $720,000 grant from the National Institute of Health to fund a ...

Harvard stem cell biologists have pioneered a groundbreaking 3D organoid culture method for generating large numbers of adult skeletal muscle satellite cells, also known as muscle stem cells ...

A review of skeletal muscle relaxants shows that they don't work for pain from osteoarthritis, neuropathic pain and other ...

Skeletal bones are connected at the joints by ligaments, and are attached to skeletal muscles by tendons. Various populations of skeletal stem and progenitor cells (SSPCs) exist within the native ...

In a recent study conducted by the Institute of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, researchers have provided new insights into the detrimental effects of type 1 diabetes mellitus ...

Sex differences in susceptibility to muscle damage are also of interest. This overview will briefly examine these questions and summarise the current evidence for oestrogenic influence on skeletal ...

Mitochondrial myopathies caused by diverse mitochondrial stressors, including mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) depletion or ...