The human body contains three kinds of muscle tissue: skeletal, smooth ... flexibility from its interconnected cardiac muscle cells, or fibers. Most cardiac muscle cells contain one nucleus ...

Through epigenetic mechanisms, cells react ... relevant to the muscle fibers and their transfer into the corresponding blueprint. This leads to impaired development of the skeletal muscle fibers.

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to treat ageing-related muscular atrophy using regenerative medicine. Conventional methods to implant myoblasts, precursors to ...

They contain many well-developed mitochondria to provide the energy for muscle contraction. In skeletal muscle, the cells merge so that the muscle fibres ... of water running through them.

Alternatively, many aquatic vertebrates exhibit an opposing growth paradigm where no true growth plateau is reached, and skeletal muscle continues to growth through the addition of nascent muscle ...