Trendy weight-loss drugs making headlines for shrinking waistlines may also be shrinking the human heart and other muscles, according to a new University of Alberta study in JACC: Basic to ...
It is long relative to the length of our fingers; it is powerful, and connected to two additional muscles that are not ... into what exactly makes the human hand distinct from that of other ...
Not just that, they also identified mechanisms the muscles use to combat aging. The result of their work is the first-ever cell atlas of aging human muscle, published today in Nature Ageing.
Skeletal muscle is the type of muscle that controls movement. Problems with these muscles can be minor, life-threatening, or ongoing problems that make it hard to perform basic daily activities.
Using mice for the study, the researchers found that heart muscle also decreased in both obese and lean mice. The systemic effect observed in mice was then confirmed in cultured human heart cells ...