Muscles can only contract and relax, so they always work in pairs called antagonistic muscles. Skeletal muscle is joined to bones. Its cells contract to make bones move and joints bend.

The human body moves through a coordinated effort of skeletal muscles, working in concert to generate force. While some ...

Objective: To systematically compare the skeletal muscle structural and ultrastructural status of endurance athletes with acquired training intolerance (ATI group) with asymptomatic endurance athletes ...

Skeletal muscle maintenance and regeneration requires the adult skeletal ... How the numbers of satellite cells are actively maintained by is an as yet unasnwered question. Our group is working to ...

The loss of muscle mass and strength poses an increasingly significant challenge for an ageing society. Prof. Kristina Norman's team at the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE ...

Objective We aimed to elucidate: (1) the effect of exercise on DNA methylation and (2) the role of imprinted genes in skeletal muscle gene networks (ie, gene group functional profiling analyses).