In muscle cells, the ER and the plasma membrane – the outer membrane of the cell – meet at periodic contact sites, an ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

Utrophin increase in muscle cells after transcriptional adaptation normalises cell function in Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a rare hereditary disease that is associated with progressive muscle wasting. The ...

Cardiomyocytes consist of a complex membrane system that is subjected to high mechanical stress during heart muscle ...

It was first discovered in skeletal muscle, where actin filaments ... that supports and strengthens the plasma membrane. Such networks allow cells to hold — and move — specialized shapes ...

Our biceps and brain cells might have more in common than we believed. According to a new study from the Lippincott-Schwartz ...

Microplastics pose a threat to heart health, causing harmful changes in vascular cells and increasing the risk of ...

muscle cells, ciliated cells, and villi. Get it, lark? Anyone…? Okay let's move on. An animal cell is made of three main parts a nucleus, cell membrane and cytoplasm, which holds the rest of its ...

For instance, neurotransmitters are a class of short-range signaling molecules that travel across the tiny spaces between adjacent neurons or between neurons and muscle cells. Other signaling ...