Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2023 Background Cancer and its treatment can adversely affect skeletal muscle, impacting physical function, treatment response and survival. No studies, however, have comprehensively characterized these muscle adaptations longitudinally in human patients at ...
Deena B. Snoke +6 more
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Beta-agonist stimulation ameliorates the phenotype of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy mice and patient-derived myotubes [PDF]
, 2017 Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a neuromuscular disease characterized by the loss of lower motor neurons. SBMA is caused by expansions of a polyglutamine tract in the gene coding for androgen receptor (AR).
Blaauw, Bert +18 more
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Human mandibular shape is associated with masticatory muscle force [PDF]
, 2018 Understanding how and to what extent forces applied to the mandible by the masticatory muscles influence its form, is of considerable importance from clinical, anthropological and evolutionary perspectives. This study investigates these questions.
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Dynamic muscle quality of the plantar flexors is impaired in claudicant patients with peripheral arterial disease and associated with poorer walking endurance [PDF]
, 2015 Objective Peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication (PAD-IC) negatively affects physical activity and function. There is evidence for plantarflexor muscle dysfunction and weakness; however, the extent to which this dysfunction can be ...
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Psoas muscle size, possible sarcopenia and frailty, and long-term survival in elderly patients after isolated surgical aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis [PDF]
, 2022 Yasuo Kondo +4 more
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Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2012 The fibers in a skeletal muscle are divided into groups called "muscle units" whereby each muscle unit is innervated by a single neuron. It was found that neurons with low activation thresholds have smaller muscle units than neurons with higher
Irit eNowik, Shmuel eZamir, Idan eSegev
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2022 Purpose Intrinsic foot muscles maintain foot structural integrity and contribute to functional movement, posture and balance. Thus, assessing intrinsic foot muscle size and strength are important.
Dallin C Swanson +7 more
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Influence of litter size on growth and structure of m. semitendinosus in newborn piglets and slaughter pigs [PDF]
Biotechnology in Animal Husbandry, 2017 Modern meat production has to meet the requirements of profitability, while meeting the demands of consumers in terms of meat quality at the same time. Huge scientific work has been done in order to find balance between quantity and quality of meet. Most
Božičković Ivana +4 more
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MRI of trunk muscles and motor and respiratory function in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1
BMC Neurology, 2019 Background Myotonic Dystrophy 1 (DM1) causes progressive myopathy of extremity muscles. DM1 may also affect muscles of the trunk. The aim of this study was to investigate fat infiltration and muscle size in trunk muscles in DM1 patients, and in an age ...
Gro Solbakken +6 more
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Mechanisms of vascular smooth muscle contraction and the basis for pharmacologic treatment of smooth muscle disorders [PDF]
, 2016 The smooth muscle cell directly drives the contraction of the vascular wall and hence regulates the size of the blood vessel lumen. We review here the current understanding of the molecular mechanisms by which agonists, therapeutics, and diseases ...
Aggarwal, M. +5 more
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