Back pain affects more than 80 million people in Europe and is the most common cause of disability. If the pain persists for ...

Pediatric skeletal muscle growth is a continuous developmental process spanning three distinct phases: neonatal infancy, childhood, and puberty. Each stage ...

Importantly, a single treatment of injured muscles with PGE2 dramatically accelerates muscle repair and recovery of strength. Skeletal muscles harbor quiescent muscle-specific stem cells (MuSCs) ...

At a cancer center in Alberta, Canada, consecutive patients with cancer (lung or GI; N = 1,473) were assessed at presentation for weight loss history, lumbar skeletal muscle index, and mean muscle ...

Abstract: Technical considerations related to the manual detection of muscles boundaries from magnetic resonance images (MRI) are evaluated. Two commercial image processing software programs were used ...

In this study, inspired by the components of cartilage matrix, a photo-cross-linked extracellular matrix (ECM) bioink composed of modified proteins and polysaccharides was presented, including gelatin ...

Citigroup has hired Ed Sankey, global head of equity capital markets at HSBC, after HSBC decided in January to close ECM in Europe and the Americas. Sankey is joining Citi as head of ECM for ...

PURPOSE: To examine histological and histomorphometric techniques for measuring collagen in skeletal muscle. METHODS: The following staining methods were used in the study: hematoxylin and eosin, ...

imperial.ac.uk Background Skeletal muscle weakness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) carries a poor prognosis, therefore a non-invasive marker of this process could be useful. Reduced ...

Mitochondria are fascinating organelles regulating many critical cellular processes for skeletal muscle physiology. Indeed, they play central roles in muscle cell metabolism, energy supply, the ...