Bio-Path Holdings Announces Pre-Clinical Results Signaling Increased Potential for BP1001-A as Treatment for Obesity in Type 2 Diabetes Patients
Updated results from BP1001-A obesity and Type 2 diabetes testing from the second stage of pre-clinical testing are as follows: Previously, Bio-Path reported BP1001-A increased insulin sensitivity in ...
Scrutinizing cells for clues to a treatment for muscular dystrophy
Whereas muscle fibers showed numerous signs of incomplete ... stromal cells in Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy model ...
Lactate shuttle in skeletal muscle impacts myofiber types and exercise activity
Given the higher expression of MCT1 compared to MCT4 in skeletal muscle, researchers constructed an animal model with ...
A “biohybrid” robotic hand built using real human muscle cells
Scaling up biohybrid robots has been difficult due to the weak contractile force of lab-grown muscles, the risk of necrosis in thick muscle tissues, and the challenge of integrating biological ...
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Cellular 'scaffold' enables myoblast implants on healthy muscle to advance regenerative medicine
Conventional methods to implant myoblasts, precursors to muscle fiber, require prior scarring for the new cells to graft properly. By adding extracellular matrix (ECM) fluid into the implant ...
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The Sliding Filament Theory of Muscle Contraction
Within the sarcomere, myosin slides along actin to contract the muscle fiber in ... filament model for muscle contraction. Muscle sliding filaments. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 9 ...