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

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

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 ...

Following on from a remarkable study in mice, scientists have now confirmed that silencing a certain protein in muscle tissue ...

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 ...

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 ...