The human body is a wonderous thing, especially when you consider how intricate and efficient each bodily system is. For instance, an adult’s blood vessels could encircle the earth 2.5 times if ...

The muscular system works to control the movement of our body and internal organs. Muscle tissue contains something called muscle fibers. Muscle fibers consist of a single muscle cell. They help to ...

The film explores the muscular system of the human body, detailing the roles and functions of the three types of muscles: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Skeletal muscles, which are voluntary and work ...

Skeletal muscle is the type of muscle that controls movement. Problems with these muscles can be minor, life-threatening, or ongoing problems that make it hard to perform basic daily activities.

But the strongest muscle by weight is the masseter, a chewing muscle in the jaw, D'Agostino said. It is small, but it has ...

A research team has discovered that docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a major omega-3 fatty acid found in fish oil, directly ...

The retinoblastoma protein (Rb), a key regulator of cell cycle progression, can bind the transcription factor E2F converting it from a positive transcriptional factor capable of driving cells into S ...

It was always thought that olfactory receptors' sole bodily function was to smell, and could only be found inside a nose. But now a new study has found two olfactory receptors in human lung tissue. It ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 87, No. 6 (Mar., 1990), pp. 2177-2181 (5 pages) Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) has been implicated in the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract S-nitrosylation, the selective modification of cysteine residues in proteins to form S-nitrosocysteine, is a major emerging mechanism by which ...

Duke University researchers say they have created an artificial human heart muscle large enough to patch over damage seen in patients who have suffered a heart attack. The advance takes a major step ...