News tagged with muscle stiffness

Nanoscale whiskers from sea creatures could grow human muscle tissue

Mar 11, 2011 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 0 |

Heart drug effective for treating symptom of muscular dystrophy

A medication most often used to treat heart arrhythmias also reduces a central symptom of myotonic dystrophy, the most common type of muscular dystrophy in adults.

Medicine & Health / Medications

May 04, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Communication breakdown: What happens to nerve cells in Parkinson's disease

A new study from The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro - at McGill University is the first to discover a molecular link between Parkinson's disease and defects in the ability of nerve cells to communicate. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Feb 10, 2010 | not rated yet | 0 |

From nerve roots to plant roots -- research on hereditary spastic paraplegia yields surprises

Sprouting. Branching. Pruning. Neuroscientists have borrowed heavily from botanists to describe the way that neurons grow, but analogies between the growth of neurons and plants may be more than superficial. A new study from ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

Aug 06, 2009 | not rated yet | 0