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Cardiac arrest, a sudden cessation of heart function, demands immediate intervention to prevent death. Survival rates, ...

When I’ve finished a long run, my leg muscles feel like they’re ablaze. By the last few seconds of planking, my abs feel like ...

Sudden muscle contractions called hypnic jerks, experienced by up to 70% of adults, can disrupt sleep. These harmless 'sleep ...

The passive tension of artificial muscle samples was measured by applying controlled elongation steps (see Online Data Supplement for detailed methods and Online Figure IV). Maximal active tension was ...

But we're proposing a more direct consequence, where we have a spike in our blood sugar after eating a meal, and that's binding to these sweet taste receptors on the heart muscle cells, causing a ...

Damage to the heart muscle itself can also impair muscular contraction. Damage the coronary arteries, mainly because of atherosclerosis or hardening of the blood vessels, can lead to a heart attack.

Cardiac muscle tissue exists only in the heart. Here, it is responsible for keeping the heart pumping and relaxing normally. Conditions that affect this tissue can affect the heart’s ability to ...

Eccentric contractions are known to create a significant amount of muscle damage 8532 that can potentially lead to hypertrophy (read: increased muscle size)—if you recover well, Su says.

Muscle cramps occur “when there is spasm or persistent involuntary muscle contraction,” he says. Muscle cramps could occur due to a variety of reasons, such as an electrolyte imbalance, poor ...

PERM1, a promising protein, paves the way for new treatments for systolic heart failure. The heart, an extraordinary muscle, beats tirelessly at 60 to 100 times a minute, day and night.