Hemifacial spasm (HFS) is a rare movement disorder that causes involuntary muscle contractions on one side of the face. It typically starts with painless but annoying twitching around one eye. Over ...

Cardiac arrest (when the heart stops beating) interrupts circulation, causing brain cells to start dying in less than five minutes of the brain going without needed oxygen in the blood. The ...

In this study, the model of postmenopausal hypertension was established by bilateral ovariectomy in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), and the specific mechanism of testosterone-induced myocardial ...

Muscles in vertebrates are composed of muscle cells, categorized into skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and smooth muscle. Since the turn of the 21st century, physiologists have applied various optical ...

Cardiac fibrosis is a frequent comorbidity ... collagen formation, smooth muscle contraction, and connective tissue development. ART also inhibited the fibrotic gene expression signature in ...

Unexplained muscle pain in the arms and legs may be the result of benign issues. Or it may point to a more serious underlying condition, such as fibromyalgia, infection, or thyroid issues.

In patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the effectiveness of drugs such as epinephrine is highly time-dependent. An intraosseous route of drug administration may enable more rapid drug ...

State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Ozone Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences ...

In recent decades, scientists have developed several drugs aimed at improving heart muscle contraction ... for gene therapy-; is able to bring back cardiac function and mitochondrial function ...