Our skeletal muscles, which link to bones and enable us to move, have a remarkable ability to regenerate after they've suffered an injury. Scientists have now developed a cutting edge microscopy tool ...

Hamaguchi, H., et al. (2022) PDGF-B secreted from skeletal muscle enhances myoblast proliferation and myotube maturation via activation of the PDGFR signaling cascade.Biochemical and Biophysical ...

Zooming in on muscle cells Date: March 24, 2021 Source: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology Summary: An international team has produced the first high-resolution 3D image of the sarcomere ...

Satellite cells are myogenic stem/progenitor cells of postnatal skeletal muscle and have a prominent role in tissue growth and regeneration. Recent work has demonstrated that, like embryonic ...

Microscope measures muscle weakness Researchers use 3D imaging to improve diagnosis of muscle diseases Date: November 28, 2018 Source: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg ...

There are three types of muscle tissue in the body: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Cardiac muscle is highly organized and contains many types of cells, including fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells ...