Sentences with phrase «studying human muscle»

Thanks to our new tools for studying human muscle cellular clocks in vitro, we now have the possibility to investigate this hypothesis in our next study.»

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Interestingly — and somewhat frustratingly — a similar study in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise found that while pre-workout whey does increase energy expenditure it also decreases levels of the muscle building human growth hormone (HGH) and testosterone.
The cognitive differences between humans and our closest living cousins, the chimpanzees, are staggeringly obvious and a new study suggests that human muscle may be just as unique.
The result was the largest deletion ever observed in the dystrophin gene using CRISPR / Cas9, and the study was the first to create corrected human iPS cells that could directly restore functional muscle tissue affected by Duchenne.
In their study, Stephanie Cherqui, PhD, associate professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, and colleagues used a transgenic mouse model that expresses two mutant human FXN transgenes, and exhibits the resulting progressive neurological degeneration and muscle weakness.
«It's taken years of trial and error, making educated guesses and taking baby steps to finally produce functioning human muscle from pluripotent stem cells,» said Lingjun Rao, a postdoctoral researcher in Bursac's laboratory and first author of the study.
Marathon running might be in some people's genes, according to a new study, which shows that a genetic mutation that boosts muscle endurance has spread widely in some human populations.
Studies in humans have shown that age - related muscle loss can be partially staved off with exercise, especially weight training.
«It's anybody's guess how they are doing it,» says Reggie Edgerton, a physiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied muscle atrophy in humans during space flight.
The length of a human muscle changes by only about 20 %, says neurobiologist William Kristan of the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the study, since it is constrained by a skeleton.
«This configuration moved the hip muscles away from the hip joints and gave them more leverage in walking — perhaps more of an advantage than humans have today,» study co-author Jeremy DeSilva, an anthropologist at Dartmouth University, said in the statement.
In a series of studies this year, molecular geneticists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine used a harmless virus to ferry new genes through the bloodstream, across blood vessel walls, and into almost every muscle cell in the bodies of hamsters bred to have human genetic diseases.
The use of muscle tissue in post-mortem studies is a novel approach which presents several advantages: first, muscle tissue is the most abundant tissue of the human body and can therefore be sampled easily.
By studying the muscles of bonobos (which indicates how they physically function), the team was able to discover that they are more closely related to human anatomy than common chimpanzees, in the sense that their muscles have changed less than they have in common chimpanzees.
«This is the first study to demonstrate that functional muscle cells can be created in a laboratory and restore dystrophin in animal models of Duchenne using the human development process as a guide.»
The scientists, who are faculty in the university's School of Medicine, are studying how oxidative stress in cells impacts sarcopenia — a loss of muscle mass and strength that occurs in all humans as they age.
A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that long - term endurance training in a stable way alters the epigenetic pattern in the human skeletal muscle.
Although the current study demonstrates that loss of IL - 15Rα promotes this phenotype, future studies are needed to determine the roles of specific IL - 15Rα isoforms in muscle, as well as the associations of additional IL15RA polymorphisms in muscle phenotypes in humans.
The study is entitled, «Testing for Recombinant Human Erythropoietin in Urine: Problems Associated with Current Anti-Doping Testing,» and was conducted by Carsten Lundby, Niels J. Achman - Andersen, Jonas J. Thomsen, Anne M. Norgaard and Paul Robach, all of the Copenhagen Muscle Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.
This is the first study to show that the repeat genome can be effectively targeted using CRISPR technology, the first use of CRISPR inhibition for a human disease, and the first use of CRISPR technology in primary human muscle cells.
Most of the study's experiments were done in the roundworm C. elegans, which have an SMN gene and motor neurons — those that connect to muscle — that are very similar to humans, making them valuable models in which to study this disease.
Today, Yin is a regeneration biologist and assistant professor at MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, leading a team studying a drug that could nudge the human body into regenerating heart muscle.
Human satellite cell cultures display numerous features of mature skeletal muscles (1) and have been used for studies of muscle metabolism in cultures established from patients with type 2 diabetes and healthy control subjects (1 — 5,8,9,21,22).
The animal model used for this study is a nematode worm genetically engineered to produce human alphasynuclein in its muscles.
Students receive training with a «systems» biology approach through courses, bench work, lab discussions and publications spanning a broad range of muscle - biology questions using studies at the level of single cells, tissues, animals and humans.
In a study using human muscle tissue, scientists in Children's Stem Cell Research Center - led by Johnny Huard, PhD, and Bruno Péault, PhD - isolated and characterized stem cells taken from blood vessels (known as myoendothelial cells) that are easily isolated using cell - sorting techniques, proliferate rapidly and can be differentiated in the laboratory into muscle, bone and cartilage cells.
The animal model used for this study, C. elegans, is a nematode worm genetically engineered to produce human α - synuclein in its muscles.
Human skeletal muscles have an epigenetic memory of earlier encounters with growth, according to a Keele University - led study.
Two studies demonstrate the first direct, chemical reprogramming of mouse and human skin cells into heart muscle and neural cells.
Jeyaraj and her colleagues studied smooth muscle cells derived from tiny blood vessels harvested from human skin biopsies and similar cells from mouse tail arteries.
The synapse between a neuron and a muscle — the neuromuscular junction — of a fruit fly larva turns out to be a good model for studying how the nervous system works in general, which can be applied to other organisms, including humans.
«The range of applications of these low cost and light weight artificial muscles is really wide and involves different fields such as robotics, prosthetics, orthotics, and human assistive devices,» says Caterina Lamuta, an author of the study.
Rather than asking you diagnostic questions, and relying on your conscious mind and intellect for answers, kinesiologists look to your muscles and movement for answers about what's going on in your body (human kinetics, is the scientific study of human movement).
Human studies indicate that people with higher serum D3 levels have a decreased risk for falls and muscle weakness as well as less insulin resistance and diabetes.
The study was performed in 2002 and found that «plasma amino acid elevation induces skeletal muscle insulin resistance in humans» (18).
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Probably the most amount of interest in the idea that human growth hormone injections could help people to drop pounds and to gain muscle was verified by a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
HGH (human growth hormone) has become a hot topic in the bodybuilding community ever since the «New England Journal of Medicine» published a study stating the various muscle building advantages of it.
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Because while no human studies have confirmed this effect, numerous animal studies have demonstrated it reliably, showing overall muscle size increases in the order of 300 % (which is HUGE).
The landmark 2013 study by Dr. Sinclair demonstrated that supplementation with NMN increased levels of NAD + and reversed age related degeneration in mice, giving older mice the muscle capacity, endurance and metabolism of much younger mice — the «equivalent of a human 60 year old becoming more like a 20 year old» (24).
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Some animal studies have shown that vanadium, like insulin, can promote amino acid transport into the cells, but various studies in humans have not confirmed any increase of the muscle mass or athletic endurance after taking vanadium supplements [6].
In the short term, a workout consisting of four 30 - second all - out cycling sprints activated mitochondrial biogenesis in the skeletal muscle of human subjects in one study.
Fr example, one study done over a ten year period in the 1990s showed that men who took human growth hormone showed increased muscle mass as compared with men who did not take human growth hormone.
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EMG (Electromyography) studies demonstrate that the human being can actively produce more force when putting intention into what muscles are contracting.
Human muscle protein synthesis is modulated by extracellular, not intramuscular amino acid availability: a dose - response study
While the exact mechanism of the effect on the ubiquitin pathway is not currently known, studies in both animal models and humans have shown the same effect, reduced protein breakdown, which helps maintain more muscle mass.
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