Skeletal muscle is joined to bones ... a fancy way of saying two muscles that pull in opposite directions. For example, in your arm, your biceps and triceps are antagonistic pairs when you ...

As we age, our muscles atrophy. Earlier this year, researchers found that hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), a protein critical in skeletal muscle development loses its functionality due to nitration as ...

Utilizing rat muscle culture, researchers developed an antibody that prevents the age-induced dysfunction of hepatocyte ...