Maintaining normal body temperature is an important function of the muscular system. Almost 85 percent of the heat a person generates in their body comes from contracting muscles. When body heat ...

Muscles play a part in every function of the body. The muscular system is made up of over 600 muscles. These include three muscle types: smooth, skeletal, and cardiac. Only skeletal muscles are ...

The film explores the muscular system of the human body, detailing the roles and functions of the three types of muscles: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Skeletal muscles, which are voluntary and ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), led by Jorge Alegre-Cebollada, has developed an ...

Researchers have identified a new function ... form of childhood muscular dystrophy. Patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy lack the protein dystrophin, which causes their muscles to become ...

A novel potential therapy based on a natural human protein significantly slows muscle damage and improves function ... muscles of muscular dystrophy mice treated with biglycan lost their strength ...

Congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) is often apparent between birth and 2 years old. This is when parents begin noticing that their child’s motor functions and muscle control aren’t developing ...

A novel potential therapy based on a natural human protein significantly slows muscle damage and improves function ... muscles of muscular dystrophy mice treated with biglycan lost their strength ...