With the recent surge in popularity of weight loss drugs like Ozempic, altogether called GLP-1s, there has been renewed scientific interest in understanding how our bodies regulate muscle growth.

Previously considered passive support cells, mural cells—pericytes and vascular smooth muscle cells—have started to garner more attention in disease research, as more subclassifications, based on ...

Their approach seems to be working in the muscle-building department, and their physiques are impressive to say the least. You want to get jacked like them, but you wonder: does building muscle ...

Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are the primary cell type involved in the atherosclerosis process; senescent VSMCs are observed in both aged vessels and atherosclerotic plaques. Factors ...

The human body contains three kinds of muscle tissue: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Only cardiac muscle tissue, comprising cells called myocytes, is present in the heart. In this article ...