Science news articles about 'skeletal muscle cells'

... an important role in numerous physiological processes, including differentiation of skeletal muscle cells, and has been implicated in regulation of lifespan and aging. Importantly, inhibition of AMPK ...

... the June 1, 2009 print issue of the Journal of Cell Biology. The contraction machinery protein, actin, exists ... express human ACTC at high levels in skeletal muscle cells. The resulting mice didn't die ...

... stimulating differentiation of other cells, including—important to this study—cells that are precursors to skeletal muscle cells. In this new study, the researchers discovered that des-acyl ghrelin ...

... . They are invasive methods and can result in infections or death. The target cells in these methods mainly focus on hepatic cell and skeletal muscle cell...

... that Mfn2 plays a key role. In 2005, in experiments in vitro using rat skeletal muscle cells, the scientists removed the expression of only the Mfn2 gene without touching PGC1-beta, and confirmed ...

... a year with dantrolene, a drug that blocks excessive calcium release from the ER in skeletal muscle cells. Dantrolene is approved for use in humans as a one-time emergency treatment for a reaction to ...

... disorder. At first glance, heart failure and the muscle-wasting Duchenne disease couldn't ... lets calcium slowly seep into the skeletal muscle cells, which are damaged from the excess calcium in Duchenne ...

... core biochemical pathways in skeletal muscle cells and fat cells are altered in people who suffer ... team is currently investigating both cell death and stem cell differentiation using similar strategies ...