Sentences with phrase «skeletal muscle function»

Weight training helps to improve skeletal muscle function so patients can remain active longer.

Low levels of these hormones results in reduced cardiac function and reduced skeletal muscle function.

Feb. 9, 2018 — Vanderbilt investigators have discovered a role for immune system T cells in slowing the decline in skeletal muscle function in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

To quote Dr. Sweeney, «So we were able to conclude that IGF - 1 could prevent all of the hallmarks of age - related atrophy and loss of skeletal muscle function in mammalian aging, at least based on the rodent model, and now we're hoping to pursue this in larger animal models.»

Such protective mechanisms could one day help better understand how heart and skeletal muscle function under both healthy and unhealthy conditions, such as with heart disease, mitochondrial diseases, and muscular dystrophy, the researchers say.

«It's possible that this work opens up a new pharmacological principle in the treatment of depression, where attempts could be made to influence skeletal muscle function instead of targeting the brain directly.

Once the fruit flies return from the ISS, comprehensive measurements of cardiac function will be taken, including climbing assays to measure skeletal muscle function, heart function assays as well as genetic assays.

The decline in skeletal muscle function associated with human ageing can be ascribed to an increasing number of mutations in satellite cells — the resident stem cells of skeletal muscle.

Foam rolling can be implemented into a number of different rehabilitation and training programs to promote soft - tissue extensibility, potentially enhancing joint ROM and promoting optimal skeletal muscle function.

It has been shown to slow the process of osteoporosis, improve skeletal muscle function, and help skeletal muscles regenerate.

Our research is focused on the physiology and pathophysiology of skeletal muscle function.

The progressive loss of skeletal muscle function and mass (sarcopenia) is a serious feature of aging and a key component of the geriatric syndrome of frailty.

Cardiac and skeletal muscle functions (i.e. contraction, cell wall maintenance, relaxation, polarization of the cell membrane) each require a different, quantifiable energy charge to drive or provide allosteric regulation for each function.

Your skeletal muscles function almost continuously to maintain your posture, making one tiny adjustment after another to keep your body upright.