Brian Glancy, a senior investigator in the Muscle Energetics Laboratory, researches how mitochondrial and contractile networks are optimized within muscle cells to maintain energy balance.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common muscle disease in children and is passed on by X-linked recessive inheritance. Characteristic is a progressive muscular atrophy. The disease ...

Typically, nerve stimulation and the concomitant monitoring of muscle contractions or twitches are used to assess the level of neuromuscular block.

Learn more about the different types of muscle contractions, how to do them, what they’re used for, and the benefits.

Researchers at the Universities of Maynooth and Bonn discover a new connection in muscular dystrophy Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common muscle disease in children and is passed ...

DMD, the most common type of muscular dystrophy, is caused by the absence of dystrophin, a protein that protects muscle from contraction-induced damage.

A muscle cramp is a sudden, intense, uncontrolled and painful contraction of a muscle. Cramps can occur during exercise, sleep or menstruation.

Expert diagnostic services and treatment are provided for patients with common and rare disorders of the muscular system, including muscular dystrophies. Myopathic (myo = muscle, pathy = disease) ...

The artificial fish swims by recreating the muscle contractions of a pumping heart which, the team says, brings scientists one step closer to developing a more complex artificial muscular pump and ...

What causes muscle twitching? Our body's nervous system is constantly telling our muscles what to do without our having to consciously thinking about each action.