The pursuit for the elixir of eternal youth has fascinated scientists for centuries. Yet, natural ageing—marked by the ...

For years, the body’s largest lean tissue—skeletal muscle—has been underestimated in its role in managing metabolic health.

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered how disruptions in the circadian rhythm in our muscles combined with poor ...

Nowadays, the prevalence of sedentary lifestyles and high-caloric diets leads to an imbalance between energy intake and spending. Hence, in the last decades, researchers have observed a significant ...

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere, the basic unit of muscle contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain ...

Methods: Glycogen content and activity of muscle enzymes with regulatory functions in glycogen synthesis were examined. Results: Testosterone treatment increased glycogen content of extensor digitorum ...

Loss of skeletal muscle mass is a known risk factor for falls. Researchers from the University of Tsukuba conducted a 5-yr follow-up study on 471 patients with type 2 diabetes and found that ...