Cardiac muscle is striated like skeletal muscle, but is controlled by both the autonomic nervous system and its own pacemaker cells, causing it to contract automatically and rhythmically.

The study was led by Professor Viviany Taqueti, Director of the Cardiac Stress Laboratory ... Souza and colleagues hypothesize that skeletal muscle quantity and quality associate with CMD and ...

This study provides a valuable new resource to investigate the molecular basis of the particular features characterizing the pipefish embryo. The authors found both unique and shared gene expression ...

Cardiac muscle is striated like skeletal muscle, but is controlled by both the autonomic nervous system and its own pacemaker cells, causing it to contract automatically and rhythmically. Weak ...

But Audentes also brought programs for two rare other rare disorders, Pompe disease, an inherited disorder that leads to muscle weakness ... for delivery to skeletal and cardiac muscle.

After precooling by water immersion, the distance cycled increased by approximately 0.9 km over the control trial (14.9 versus 15.8 km ... cardiovascular function, skeletal muscle function, or the CNS ...

Intercostal muscle strains are the most common type of musculoskeletal chest pain. The intercostal muscles are thin muscles that attach between the ribs. During breathing, the external intercostals ...

Involuntary cardiac and smooth muscles are responsible for contraction of the heart and movement of substances through hollow organ systems, respectively, and voluntary skeletal muscles are ...