The flying reptiles known as pterosaurs are the closest relatives of dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight. However, many details of pterosaur flight anatomy and ...

In a serendipitous discovery, UC San Diego researchers using cryo-EM technology captured the first visualizations of the 3-D structure of the muscle acetylcholine receptor in fetal and adult muscles.

WHEN, some years ago, I suggested 1 that the phenomena associated with the action of drugs on muscle might more appropriately be explained by reference to the actual facts of minute anatomy than to a ...

The researchers observed that a protein called PGC-1alpha regulates activity at the junction between motor neurons and muscle fibers. They cross-bred mice with heightened levels of the PGC-1alpha gene ...

A surprising recent study in the nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, indicates that genetic defects in acetylcholine (Ach) transmission at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) might partially underlie ...

The muscle destruction associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common childhood form of muscular dystrophy, is halted in mice when supplemental amounts of a naturally occurring ...

The flying reptiles known as pterosaurs are the closest relatives of dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight. However, many details of pterosaur flight anatomy and ...