Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers recently found a key structural differences in channels that regulate how and when heart and skeletal muscles contract. Identifying the differences between the ...

Original Communication Published: 24 July 2001 Age-related differences in fat-free mass, skeletal muscle, body cell mass and fat mass between 18 and 94 years UG Kyle, L Genton, D Hans, L Karsegard ...

A muscle twitch is a short contraction that sometimes occurs repeatedly − think eye twitching. Such movement can be uncomfortable and inconvenient, but it isn't usually painful.

Muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis can affect mobility, breathing, speaking, and muscle control. But they have distinct causes, affect different parts of the body, and have other differences.

Women are more prone to knee injuries than men, and the findings of a new study suggest this may involve more than just differences in muscular and skeletal structure -- it shows that males and ...

Abstract Objectives: To determine sex differences in the distribution of regional and total skeletal muscle (SM) using contiguous whole body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, and to examine the ...

The muscular system is made up of over 600 muscles. These include three muscle types: smooth, skeletal, and cardiac. Only skeletal muscles are voluntary, meaning you can control them consciously.

Interleukins like IL-15 are messenger chemicals utilized by the immune system for communication, and in this case the message is to gather T cell precursors and shelter them in skeletal muscle tissue.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common muscle disease in children and is passed on by X-linked recessive inheritance. Characteristic is a progressive muscular atrophy. The disease ...