News tagged with muscle growth

Study shows calories drive earlier puberty

(Medical Xpress) -- Environmental pollutants, eating habits, lack of exercise and genetic traits have all been raised as possible causes of earlier puberty onset in girls in recent years.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Exercise triggers stem cells in muscle

University of Illinois researchers determined that an adult stem cell present in muscle is responsive to exercise, a discovery that may provide a link between exercise and muscle health. The findings could lead to new therapeutic ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How work tells muscles to grow

We take it for granted, but the fact that our muscles grow when we work them makes them rather unique. Now, researchers have identified a key ingredient needed for that bulking up to take place. A factor produced in working ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Unlocking the genetic and molecular mystery of soft-tissue sarcoma

Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston have uncovered important molecular and genetic keys to the development of soft-tissue sarcomas in skeletal muscle, giving researchers and clinicians additional targets to stop ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

L-arginine: Supplement tested on fit, athletic men shows no advantage

One of the most recent, popular supplements for athletes looking to boost performance comes in the form of a naturally-occurring amino acid called L-arginine.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers investigate muscle-building effect of protein beverages for athletes

Physical activity requires strong, healthy muscles. Fortunately, when people exercise on a regular basis, their muscles experience a continuous cycle of muscle breakdown (during exercise) and compensatory remodeling and growth ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hormone reduces risk of heart failure from chemotherapy

Recent studies have shown that the heart contains cardiac stem cells that can contribute to regeneration and healing during disease and aging. However, little is known about the molecules and pathways that regulate these ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pig bladder cells help regenerate an war veteran’s leg muscle

(Medical Xpress) -- As a result of a 70 million dollar investment from the U.S. military, researchers from the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh announced a successful technique using ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Proteins used to map the aging process

Loss of muscle mass is not only associated with disease, such as HIV and cancer, but also with the normal aging process. Anabolic steroids are sometimes used to reverse loss of lean muscle tissue but they can have unwanted ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Apple peel makes mice mighty

For Popeye, spinach was the key to extra muscle. For the mice in a new University of Iowa study, it was apples, or more precisely a waxy substance called ursolic acid that's found in apple peel.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

How muscle develops: A dance of cellular skeletons

Revealing another part of the story of muscle development, Johns Hopkins researchers have shown how the cytoskeleton from one muscle cell builds finger-like projections that invade into another muscle cell's territory, eventually ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 04, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Animal studies reveal new route to treating heart disease

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have shown in laboratory experiments in mice that blocking the action of a signaling protein deep inside the heart's muscle cells blunts the most serious ill effects of high blood pressure on the ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created May 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover cell of origin for childhood muscle cancer

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children's Hospital have defined the cell of origin for a kind of cancer called sarcoma. In a study published today as the Featured Article in the journal Cancer Ce ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Newly discovered regulatory mechanism essential for embryo development and may contribute to cancer

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a mechanism controlling the function of a protein that binds to DNA during embryonic development and may function to prevent abnormal tumor growth. When the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Going from strength to strength: effects of growth hormone on muscle

Growth hormone is used to treat children's growth disorders and has been used by some sports men and women to promote muscle growth and regeneration.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0