Skeletal muscle retains a 'molecular memory' of repeated disuse, study finds

Muscle loss (atrophy) due to inactivity is common after illness, injury, hospitalization or falls, and becomes increasingly ...
Nature

The skeletal muscle arachidonic acid cascade in health and inflammatory disease

Skeletal muscles produce prostaglandins and leukotrienes that control multiple steps of myogenesis, and are critical for skeletal muscle development, growth and repair Prostaglandins and leukotrienes ...
Forbes

Innovations In Skeletal Regeneration: Bridging The Gap In Bone Health

Cropped shot of a female doctor showing result of radiography on digital tablet to patient and giving diagnosis. Doctor talking to patient about medical treatment after surgery. This story is part of ...
News Medical

Study identifies specific genetic variants that affect the skeletal form and ties a major evolutionary facet of human anatomical change to pathogenesis

How is skeletal evolution studied? Morphological alterations that contribute to human skeletal structure have been extensively studied in paleoanthropology. Aside from standing height, it has been ...
Labroots

Boning Up on the Unique Genetics of the Human Skeletal System

Humans have a distinctive skeleton, and are the only bipedal great apes (the great ape species are bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and humans). While the evolution of the human skeleton ...