Loss of muscle mass, also called muscle wasting or atrophy, can happen gradually as part of getting older or more suddenly ...

This image from video provided by UPMC and University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences shows Doug McCullough, who has spinal muscular atrophy, during tests of experimental spinal cord stimulation to ...

Cancer cachexia is a devastating condition that affects up to 80% of advanced cancer patients and causes approximately 2 million deaths worldwide annually. Cancer cachexia is characterized by ...

Cancer cachexia is a multifactorial syndrome marked by a severe loss of body weight due primarily to the wasting of skeletal muscle and adipose tissue. This syndrome is often accompanied by systemic ...

HOUSTON – A newly identified gene, atrogin-1, is involved in muscle loss associated with cancer, diabetes, fasting and kidney disease as well as in the atrophy occurring with disuse, inactivity, and ...

A specific gene may play a key role in new treatments that prevent muscle in the body from breaking down in serious muscle diseases, muscular dystrophies. This is shown in a new study at Umeå ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has developed an innovative method known as TEVs-TTN, for studying the specific mechanical functions of proteins through their ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger – able to stand and walk more easily – when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord. On ...