However, approximately 40% of our total body weight is comprised of skeletal muscle, which includes the muscles in the face, neck and respiratory system that help us with breathing, chewing and ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have identified a subgroup of patients with necrotizing myopathy who have a novel autoantibody specificity that makes them potential ...

In this study, we evaluated the presence of anti-RuvBL1/2 autoantibodies in patients with SSc or idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) with a nuclear speckled pattern on HEp-2 IIF without other known ...

Involuntary cardiac and smooth muscles are responsible for contraction of the heart and movement of substances through hollow organ systems, respectively, and voluntary skeletal muscles are ...

Intercostal muscle strains are the most common type of musculoskeletal chest pain. The intercostal muscles are thin muscles that attach between the ribs. During breathing, the external intercostals ...

The company made its debut last year with a $51 million Series A and a licensing agreement with Astellas for a gene therapy candidate (KT430) for X-linked myotubular myopathy. Shortly after that ...

Danon disease is a rare X-linked dominant genetic disorder that manifests with the clinical triad of cardiomyopathy (stiff heart muscles), skeletal myopathy (weakness), and intellectual disability.

The research work focuses mainly on the development of cell therapy strategies in the treatment of skeletal muscle disorders, including myopathies. We demonstrated that human muscle reserve cells ...

We hypothesize that Duchenne muscular dystrophy and autism spectrum disorder/pervasive developmental disorder co-occur with a greater than random frequency. In this study, we set out to reject the ...