Nowadays, the prevalence of sedentary lifestyles and high-caloric diets leads to an imbalance between energy intake and ...

There are many different types of cells in animals ... banded appearance of heart muscle and skeletal muscle. They contain many well-developed mitochondria to provide the energy for muscle ...

Mitochondrial diseases affect approximately 1 in 5,000 people worldwide, causing debilitating symptoms ranging from muscle ...

Ablation of Treg causes increased production of IFN-gamma by natural killer cells and other cells. 4 Treating muscle fibers with recombinant IFN-gamma significantly reduced mitochondrial ...

Researchers from the Laboratory of Systems Biology, Department of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia, recently found that the extent of AMPK activation is not the same ...

After earning a dual MD–PhD from the University of Maryland, Porter used his background in muscle cell biology to investigate heart development at Yale. It wasn’t until his move to Rochester, however, ...

Calcium transport into and out of mitochondria ... and cells die. This is most apparent in the heart, where calcium overload contributes to the permanent loss of heart muscle cells during ...