There are three types of muscle tissue in the body: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Cardiac muscle is highly organized and contains many types of cells, including fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells ...

Patients with degenerative diseases that attack skeletal muscle tissues, such as Duchenne muscular ... prior to commitment to a specific cell type,” says Aboalola. “In fact, the presence ...

Muscles can only contract and relax, so they always work in pairs called antagonistic muscles. Skeletal muscle is joined to bones. Its cells contract to make bones move and joints bend.

Contrary to prior data, this study shows that neither eosinophils nor STAT6-mediated IL-4/IL-13 signaling contribute ...

George Brooks proposed the "lactate shuttle" theory, which posits that lactate serves as an energy substrate, produced by ...

There are several types of GLUTs, varying in their location (tissue specificity) and in their affinity for glucose. Adipose and skeletal muscle tissues have GLUT4, a type of GLUT which is present ...

A new research paper was published in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as “Aging (Albany NY)” and “Aging-US” by Web of Science) on December 12, 2024, Volume 16, Issue 22, titled “Arginase-II gene ...