Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to treat aging-related muscular atrophy using regenerative medicine. Conventional methods to implant myoblasts, precursors to muscle ...

Dystrophin is part of a protein complex linking the cytoskeleton of muscle fibers to the surrounding connective tissue (basal lamina). It’s a long protein with numerous ... muscle fibers are easily ...

Age-related muscular atrophy in skeletal muscle can have ... is in a "repair mode," when stem cells in the skeletal muscle tissue called satellite cells are in an activated state, secreting ...

A recent study has shed new light on the role of fibro-adipogenic progenitors (FAPs) in muscle regeneration, fibrosis, and ...

It's caused by inflammation in the uvea, a layer of tissue just inside the outer white part of your eye. The uvea is made up of a layer of blood vessels, a muscular ring that surrounds your pupil ...

Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a rare neurological condition that causes severe muscle weakness and intellectual disability. DMD is an inherited (passed ...

The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) welcomes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the expanded indication of Alexion/AstraZeneca’s eculizumab (Soliris) for pediatric patients ...