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 ...

WINT Enrolling SCAI Stage C participants in SEISMiC C trial, preparing for Phase 3 readiness Pennsylvania-based Windtree ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cardiomyocytes consist of a complex membrane system that is subjected to high mechanical stress during heart muscle contractions ... Membrane Proliferation in Cardiac Hypertrophy, Circulation ...

A cardiac electrophysiologist is a cardiologist who has 2 years of extra training to learn about heart rhythms and how to diagnose problems with them. Training to become certified as a cardiac ...

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.

You lower into the squat, pause at the bottom, then drive upward to stand; these three phases are called eccentric, isometric and concentric muscle contraction, and if your goal is to build muscle ...

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 ...