Male hormones (androgens), as their name implies, have an important role in promoting the formation of male sexual characteristics (secondary sexual characteristics). In addition, androgens have ...

In male mice, voluntary exercise improved treadmill endurance and changed muscle gene expression but did not reverse high-phosphate-diet-related impairment of skeletal-muscle mitochondrial ...

Skeletal muscles are capable of regenerating themselves following an injury, a process that depends on muscle stem cells. In healthy resting muscle, these cells are predominantly in a quiescent state.

A research team led by Prof. Chen Yan and Prof. Yang Lifeng from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed a physiological function of monocarboxylate ...

Skeletal muscles-responsible for movement, joint stabilization, and postural support-are highly metabolically active and heavily reliant on oxygen during physical activity. However, conditions such as ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy has long presented gene therapists with a deceptively simple question: how much dystrophin does a ...

Learn how your muscles function as an endocrine organ. Training releases myokines to reduce chronic inflammation, improve ...

For women: Muscle mass was already declining in young adulthood at a rate of 0.6% per year, and then remained relatively ...

Congenital myopathies are a group of rare, inherited muscle diseases that often cause muscle weakness in childhood. This ...

A. Fluorescent immunostaining of PDGFRα, showing mesenchymal progenitors, laminin surrounding skeletal muscle, and AR. Arrows indicate mesenchymal progenitors expressing AR, arrowheads indicate ...