by American Physiological Society Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainPeople who experience heat stress during exercise may need more recovery time to let their muscles heal, according to a new mouse study published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. The study is titled “Exertional heat stroke causes long-term skeletal muscle epigenetic...
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DISCOVERY GETS US CLOSER TO ‘MUSCLE IN A DISH’
NOVEMBER 14TH, 2023POSTED BY UC IRVINE One disorder the Hicks lab hopes to treat with their lab-grown muscle progenitors is tears to the rotator cuff muscles, which affects up to 30% of people over the age of 65. (Credit: Getty Images) Researchers have identified a gene expressed during regeneration that is critical for muscle repair. The key...
When muscles inexorably shrink
EMBO 24 February 2022 – The effect of iron supplementation on skeletal muscle atrophy in cancer patients and sufferers from other wasting diseases has been investigated by a team of Italian and Belgian scientists which studied causes of these conditions in humans and mouse models. The findings, published today in EMBO Reports, shed light on wasting mechanisms...
Washable Fabric Measures Electrical Activity of Muscles
NOVEMBER 17TH, 2021 CONN HASTINGS DIAGNOSTICS, MATERIALS, NEUROLOGY, ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY, REHAB, SPORTS MEDICINE Researchers at the University of Utah engineered a wearable fabric that can function as a biosensor, measuring electrical activity of muscles. The technology could be useful for physical rehabilitation, allowing clinicians and physical therapists to monitor patients’ progress. The fabric contains a...
Exercise Vigorously for four Seconds. Repeat. Your Muscles May Thank You
BY LIGHTLYNEWS.COM · ON AUGUST 11, 2021 A mere 4 seconds of all-out train, repeated two or three dozen occasions, could possibly be all many people have to construct and keep our health, energy, and bodily energy, in keeping with inspiring new research of the efficiency of super-quick exercises. The findings increase on different, latest...