Muscle diseases are the major area of interest for
myosin researchers.
Not exact matches
In their film, the
researchers saw the
myosin crawl on actin in contracting muscles.
This suggests, say the
researchers, that
myosin stores elastic energy that can be used in the next contraction in the same way a stretched spring holds onto energy and releases it when it recoils.
In this study, the
researchers were able to block the autoimmune response by inducing immune tolerance to alpha -
myosin.
The
researchers found, however, that in mice these specialized training cells couldn't train on the alpha -
myosin heavy chain protein because none of that protein was being produced in those cells.
Researchers in the lab of Myra Lipes, M.D., have shown in both mice and people that myocarditis can be triggered by a protein called alpha -
myosin heavy chain, which is found only in heart muscle and in especially low quantities in human heart tissue.