Muscle relaxers help reduce muscle stiffness and pain from conditions like cerebral palsy and lower back pain. There are two main types of muscle relaxers: antispastics and antispasmodics. Muscle ...

Maria Arellano Simpson has been on and off restrictive diets since she was nine years old. ‘As a young adult in the 2000s, cardio was the focus and I spent hours doing it to try to get smaller,’ the ...

In this study, the authors developed an organoid system containing smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs; pacemaker cells), but few enteric neurons. This system generates ...

Introduction: This study aims to systematically explore the regulatory effects of ghrelin on hindlimb skeletal muscle function and gastrointestinal smooth muscle in mice. The objective is to elucidate ...

Advice to improve your movement, fitness, and overall health from the #1 in orthopedics in the U.S. Skeletal muscles—those attached to your bones by tendons—make up about a third of the human body.

The chest includes some of the most prominent muscles of our body, and they’re at work for us almost constantly. The main function of the chest muscles is to help you bring your arms closer to your ...

This fundamental research conducted a molecular comparison between smooth muscle cells and adjacent fibroblast cells within lung blood vessels affected by pulmonary arterial hypertension. The study ...

Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan 410001, China School of Nursing, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan 410001, China ...

The primary mechanism of regulation of smooth muscle contraction involves the phosphorylation of myosin catalyzed by Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent myosin light chain kinase. However, additional mechanisms ...

Department of Vascular Biology of the Institute of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases (I2MC), Université de Toulouse 3, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) UMR1048, ...