You may wonder how many muscles you actually have in your body, but you might not know that there are three different types of muscle.

An international team has produced the first high-resolution 3D image of the sarcomere, the basic contractile unit of skeletal and heart muscle cells, by using electron cryo-tomography. Electron ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a ...

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.

Cardiac muscle tissue is one of the three types of muscle tissue in your body. The other two types are skeletal muscle tissue and smooth muscle tissue.

M1/M2 timely transition triggered by the recognition of apoptotic cells in the skeletal muscle is a key to tissue homeostasis. Regulatory T lymphocytes accumulate in the injured skeletal muscle ...

This study outlines a protocol to generate human pluripotent stem cell-derived myotubes for investigating skeletal muscle ...

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that a protein called platelet-derived growth factor subunit B (PDGF-B) is continuously secreted from skeletal muscle cells and helps ...

New details of the structure and function of an intracellular channel that controls the contraction of skeletal muscle have been uncovered by new research.

Skeletal muscle stem cells can fix weakling muscles in mice and could eventually lead to treatments for muscular dystrophy.