Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have identified a subgroup of patients with necrotizing myopathy who have a novel autoantibody specificity that makes them potential ...

Effect of Simvastatin on Irisin Expression in Human Skeletal Muscle Cells Simvastatin-treated skeletal muscle cells have higher levels of irisin. Statin treatment leads to increased oxidative ...

I am studying Laing Distal Myopathy (MPD1), an inherited condition that causes progressive muscle weakness in the extremities and has no cure. MPD1 is caused by mutations in β-myosin, the primary ...

Statin therapy has proven efficacy for reducing the incidence of major adverse clinical events, but when administered in high doses these agents can cause myopathy. A means to identify those at ...

Skeletal muscle is a subtype of muscle formed of bundles of elongated, cylindrical, multinucleate muscle fibres arranged in a striated pattern. Skeletal muscle is attached to the skeleton by ...

Skeletal muscles come in a variety of shapes and sizes, each tuned to a particular function — from the muscles that allow a person to run to those that focus the eye. Individual muscles also have ...

CJI DY Chandrachud proposes senior Supreme Court judge as his successor • Nemaline myopathy is a muscle disorder that mainly ...

More information: Cecilia Leijding et al, Serum from patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy induces skeletal muscle weakness, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (2024). DOI: 10.1136/ard-2024 ...