Setting out to identify all proteins that make up the sarcomere, the basic contractile unit of muscle cells, resulted in an unexpected revelation, providing experimental evidence that helps ...

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere, the basic unit of muscle contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain ...

Myokines are small proteins secreted by skeletal muscle cells. They have a wide range of functions and may act on cells both near and far to where they are made.

"We must consume about 10% of our calories as protein to maintain our muscles, and just a little bit more than this will be enough to gain muscle," advises Willett.

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The most common cause of sudden death in young athletes - a heart condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - can develop from a single genetic mutation that disrupts at least two other genes, ...

All living organisms' genetic information is stored in DNA, which is transcribed into RNA, which is translated into proteins ...

News Release 14-Jan-2023 Scientists discover secreted protein helps both repair and grow muscles Myokine improves both myoblast proliferation and myotube contractile strength Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

Wolfgang Linke adds: "We showed that these truncated proteins are useless, because they are not incorporated into the contractile units of the cardiac muscle cells." ...