As a doctor of physical therapy, I work with clients every day who are dealing with pain. The pain-medicine industry might tell you there are endless ways to reduce or eliminate pain without lifting a ...

School of Mechanical Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, China Shandong Institute of Mechanical Design and Research, Jinan 250353, China School of ...

A group of women on South Korea's largest island, Jeju, follow a unique tradition to put food on the table: They freedive to depths of nearly 33 feet (10 meters) without using any special equipment.

The film explores the muscular system of the human body, detailing the roles and functions of the three types of muscles: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Skeletal muscles, which are voluntary and work ...

The transfer of Ca 45 at rest and during contraction has been measured in isolated guinea-pig atria. During contraction, the rate of transfer increases considerably. The increment in the uptake of ...

The human body is a wonderous thing, especially when you consider how intricate and efficient each bodily system is. For instance, an adult’s blood vessels could encircle the earth 2.5 times if ...

Using whole genome sequencing, researchers identified a single variant in a microRNA gene, MIR145-5p, as the source of multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome, which had gone undiagnosed in a ...

LAS CROSSE-EAU CLAIRE, Wis. -- Levi Hewitt is a happy, seemingly healthy 4-year-old. "He was a normal kid. A normal healthy kid,' said his mom Tianne Hewitt. "And right before he turned a year old, in ...

1 Laboratory of Cellular Physiology, Centre of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela 2 Physiology and Biochemistry Research Group-PHYSIS, ...

With advancements in stem cell technology, in vitro models using iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cells)-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CM) and engineered heart tissues (EHT) can serve as powerful tools ...