Skeletal muscle can adapt its mass in response to physical activity, metabolism and hormones. The control of muscle size depends on the coordinated balance between protein synthesis and protein degradation. Mechanical overload or anabolic hormonal stimulation shifts the balance towards protein synthesis leading to an increase in fiber size, a process called hypertrophy. Conversely, in catabolic conditions protein degradation exceeds protein synthesis resulting into muscle weakness and muscle atrophy. Muscle loss and weakness occurs in several pathological conditions like disuse, denervation, immobilization, sepsis, burn injury, cancer, AIDS, diabetes, heart and renal failure and in aging. Muscle atrophy is an active process which requires t...
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SUMMARY: Loss of muscle mass occurs in many debilitating diseases including sepsis, burn injury,...
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The skeletal muscle accounts for almost 40% of total body mass and represents a major site of metabo...
Skeletal muscle is the most abundant tissue in the whole organism representing more than 40% of the ...
Muscle plasticity after exercise is achieved by different molecular mechanisms that regulate gene tr...
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Mitochondria are cellular organelles participating actively in energy production, signal transductio...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder and the most frequent form of...
Parkinson’s disease is a widespread neurodegenerative disorder that affect 2% of the population abov...
SUMMARY: Loss of muscle mass occurs in many debilitating diseases including sepsis, burn injury,...
FoxO proteins are transcription factors that control cell cycle progression, DNA repair, muscle atro...
The skeletal muscle accounts for almost 40% of total body mass and represents a major site of metabo...
Skeletal muscle is the most abundant tissue in the whole organism representing more than 40% of the ...
Muscle plasticity after exercise is achieved by different molecular mechanisms that regulate gene tr...
Mitochondria are essential organelles not only in the life of the cell, but also during death. Indee...
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal childhood muscular disorder characterized clinically b...
Cancer cells are endowed with the capability to reprogram cell metabolism in order to support neopla...
Mitochondria are very dynamic organelles with a crucial role in life and death of eukaryotic cells. ...
Dystrophinopathies are a group of X-linked recessive neuromuscular disorders due to mutations in the...
Mitochondria are double membrane–enclosed organelles that play a crucial role in ATP production, met...
The integument of Reptiles is different with respect to that of other Vertebrates because it is comp...
Mitochondria are cellular organelles participating actively in energy production, signal transductio...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder and the most frequent form of...
Parkinson’s disease is a widespread neurodegenerative disorder that affect 2% of the population abov...