There are three types of muscle tissue in the human body including cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscle fibers are those which are attached to the skeleton. They are ...

Researchers at Osaka University used electron cryomicroscopy (CryoEM) to image essential cardiac muscle components, known as thin filaments, with unprecedented resolution. They also discovered the ...

Adding to the growing fundamental understanding of the machinery of muscle cells, a group of biophysicists describe -- in minute detail -- how actin filaments are stabilized at one of their ends to ...

- Muscle cells, also known as myocytes, are specialized cells designed for contraction and force production. Skeletal Muscle Cells: These cells are long, cylindrical, and have a striated (or striped) ...

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Ernest Page, professor emeritus in Medicine and Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, died from complications of long-term neuromuscular disease on July 21 at his home in Jerusalem. He was 85.

—Starting cardiac medications, using the proper timing and dosing, to optimize the efficacy of therapies and improve patient outcomes, is key to cardiac care for patients with Duchenne muscular ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 89, No. 2 (Jan. 15, 1992), pp. 554-558 (5 pages) The principal voltage-sensitive sodium channel from human heart ...