Age affects every type of body tissue, including skin, muscles, bone, and more. Learn about the specific effects of aging on ...

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

This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2016. Contributed by Helen M. Blau, May 15, 2017 (sent for review April ...

It does not mean that a doctor does not know what to call the condition, it just means that some or all of the clinical features traditionally seen in defined connective tissue disease are ... such as ...

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 ...

You get a hernia when an organ or fatty tissue squeezes through a weak spot in a surrounding muscle or connective tissue called fascia. Hernias often happen where the belly wall is weaker ...

PURPOSE: To examine histological and histomorphometric techniques for measuring collagen in skeletal muscle ... mesenchymal tissues is of fundamental importance for the binding of basement membrane ...

The term ‘undifferentiated connective tissue disease’ (UCTD) is generally used to describe clinical entities characterised by clinical and serological manifestations of systemic autoimmune diseases ...

Breast density refers to the proportions of glandular and connective tissue compared to fatty tissue in the breast, as seen on a mammogram. Simply put, dense breasts have more glandular and ...