The purpose of this study was to compare hardness characteristics of the masseter muscle to those of the biceps brachii muscle during repetitive muscle movements. Seventeen asymptomatic female subject...
Regenerated muscle fibers which appeared after transplantation of chicken slow muscle (anterior latissimus dorsi) into breast fast muscle (pectoralis major) of the same animal were studied by two-dime...
Muscular overuse after high force eccentric muscle action is associated with structural damage of the contractile apparatus that can be observed as Z-line steaming and myofibrillar disruption. Mechani...
Patients with non-dystrophic myotonias, including chloride (myotonia congenita) and sodium channelopathies (paramyotonia congenita/potassium aggravated myotonias), may show muscular hypertrophy in com...
A muscle-specific ubiquitin ligase, Muscle Atrophy F-box (MAFbx), is known to mediate the degradation of muscle-specific transcription factor MyoD in vitro. Its regulation in regenerating skeletal mus...
BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic heart failure demonstrate several skeletal muscle abnormalities. The underlying mechanisms are unclear. After cardiac transplantation, cardiac function is restored, b...