After nerve injury, the protein complex mTORC1 takes over an important function in skeletal muscle to maintain the neuromuscular junction, the synapse between the nerve and muscle fiber. Researchers ...

A team of neuroscientists report on a new high-pressure flash-freeze technique that allows a more representative imaging of protein placement in and around synaptic neurotransmitter vesicles. The ...

MIT engineers have developed a microfluidic device that replicates the neuromuscular junction — the vital connection where nerve meets muscle. The device, about the size of a U.S. quarter, contains a ...

James F. Howard Jr, MD, professor of neurology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explains how nerve and muscle signaling in the neuromuscular junction go awry in myasthenia gravis.

IF a foreign motor nerve is connected to a normally innervated muscle, the nerve fibres grow into it but do not establish intimate contact with muscle fibres, and are unable to transmit impulses to ...

A SINGLE muscle fibre with its nerve supply (Fig. 1) has been dissected from the M. adductor longus of the frog (Hyla aurea). This preparation survives for as long as twenty–four hours at a ...

It may be time to add “slowing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis” to the growing list of tasks accomplished by microRNAs, the tiny snippets of nucleic acid that can silence genes. MicroRNA activity has ...

What are the symptoms of the disease? It usually presents as fatiguing weakness of "proximal" muscles such as shoulders, thighs, hips. There are also cases of double vision, droopy eyelids and even ...

DALLAS – May 20, 2003 – Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the Mayo Clinic have discovered a novel genetic mutation that leads to a debilitating muscle condition known as ...

After nerve injury, the protein complex mTORC1 takes over an important function in skeletal muscle to maintain the neuromuscular junction, the synapse between the nerve and muscle fiber. Researchers ...