Taking skeletal muscle to heart.

Science News;  November 19, 1988 ;     700+ words ...Taking Skeletal Muscle to Heart Would you have your songs...increasingly are finding that skeletal muscle can be wrapped around a damaged...valuable assistance. Indeed, while skeletal muscle may never match the heart for...

Bioimpedance analysis: Potential for measuring lower limb skeletal muscle...

JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......partially dependent on lower limb skeletal muscle mass. At present, both research and...clinical methods of evaluating lower limb skeletal muscle mass as a component of nutrition assessment...BIA system, and lower limb fat and skeletal muscle were estimated by dual-energy x-ray...

A novel in vitro three-dimensional skeletal muscle model

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Abstract A novel three-dimensional (3D) skeletal muscle model composed of C2C12 mouse myoblasts...Introduction Mature multinucleated skeletal muscle cells are formed and regenerated after...Such knowledge can also improve skeletal muscle tissue engineering approaches, current...

Chronic infusion of interleukin 1 induces hyperlactatemia and altered...

JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......hyperlactatemia and derangements in skeletal muscle and hepatic lactate metabolism was...in an elevated lactate content in skeletal muscle (p < .05) but not in liver. The...significantly (p < .05) in the skeletal muscle of animals infused with IL-1 compared...

Muscle-derived CD45-SCA-1 + C-KIT- progenitor cells give rise to skeletal...

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......cell population isolated from murine skeletal muscle has recently been shown to differentiate...culture conditions, differentiate into skeletal muscle cells in vitro. Lower-extremity skeletal muscle tissue isolated from 3- to 4-wk-old...

Fast and Slow Skeletal Troponin I in Serum from Patients with Various...

Clinical Chemistry;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Background: Detection of skeletal muscle injury is hampered by a lack...serum markers specific for skeletal muscle; serum concentrations of skeletal...blood of patients with various skeletal muscle disorders. Methods: Serial...

Morphology and molecular composition of sarcosplasmic reticulum surface...

Biophysical Journal;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......excitation-contraction coupling of skeletal muscle cells is initiated by the functional...charge movement restored in dysgenic skeletal muscle by injection of dihydropyridine receptor...isoforms in mature avian fast-twitch skeletal muscle. J. Biol. Chem. 265:14187-14194. Beam...

Contribution of stem cells to skeletal muscle regeneration

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Abstract: Stem cells for skeletal muscle originate from dermomyotome...remarkable ability to regenerate. Skeletal muscle damage induces degenerative...krakow.pl/FHC) Key words: Skeletal muscle - Regeneration - Stem cells...

Dietary fatty acids influence the activity and metabolic control of...

The Journal of Nutrition;  November 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......control of mitochondrial CPT I in heart and skeletal muscle tissue than...regulation of mitochondrial CPT I activity in heart and skeletal muscle. J. Nutr...heart and skeletal muscle have high mitochondrial carnitine...

Skeletal muscle changes after hemiparetic stroke and potential beneficial...

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ....... A paucity of literature exists on skeletal muscle abnormalities and their clinical relevance...exercise stimulus to reverse the potential skeletal muscle abnormalities or deconditioning that follow stroke [4-5]. Skeletal muscle has not been systematically pursued...effects of ...

Multiple regions of RyR1 mediate functional and structural interactions...

Biophysical Journal;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Ca^sup 2+^ release units (CRUs). In skeletal muscle this interaction is bidirectional...charge movement restored in dysgenic skeletal muscle by injection of dihydropyridine receptor...isoforms in mature avian fast twitch skeletal muscle. J. Biol. Chem. 265:14187-14194. Avila...

Skeletal muscle insulin resistance: roles of fatty acid metabolism and...

Physical Therapy;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......resistance with the storage of lipids in skeletal muscle cells and discusses the abilities...bloodstream and into tissues, such as skeletal muscle, that express glucose transporter...Because of the high responsiveness of skeletal muscle to insulin and the large overall mass...

Skeletal muscle sterol regulatory element binding protein-1c decreases...

The Journal of Nutrition;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Although SREBP-1c RNA is expressed in skeletal muscle, little is known about its regulation...respond to nutritional status in skeletal muscle. J. Nutr. 133: 1787-1792, 2003. KEY WORDS: * skeletal muscle * transcription factor * insulin...

Determination of Coenzyme Q^sub 10^ Status in Blood Mononuclear Cells,...

Clinical Chemistry;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......carrier in the mitochondrial electron transport...profound deficiency in skeletal muscle CoQ^sub 10^ has...with multisystem mitochondrial encephalomyopathies...concentration of skeletal muscle, blood mononuclear...following: (a), skeletal muscle from 26 ...

Insulin action on heart and skeletal muscle FDG uptake in patients with...

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Abnormal heart and skeletal muscle ^sup 18^F-fluorodeoxyglucose...its specific role in heart and skeletal muscle FDG uptake in hypertriglyceridemics...Methods: We compared heart and skeletal muscle FDG uptake using PET and the...