Rest assured, the hype is real. Hypertrophy is, by definition, the enlargement of an organ or tissue from the increase in size of its cells. Not to be confused with hyperplasia, the process of ...

Figure 4: Intracellular signalling in MLC/mIgf-1 transgenic muscle. Figure 5: MLC/mIgf-1 expression attenuates age-related genetic changes preserves skeletal muscle phenotype and regeneration in ...

A ton goes into growing your muscles—and that includes proper nutrition, recovery, and working out in a specific way. That’s where hypertrophy ... energy needed for skeletal muscle contraction ...

Resistance training induces larger increases in skeletal muscle mass than in fat free mass. Muscle hypertrophy does not occur uniformly throughout each individual muscle or region of the body. If ...

PDGF-B secreted from skeletal muscle cells enhances not only cell proliferation but also muscle hypertrophy accompanied by contractile function.

Cardiovascular system Cardiac hypertrophy; increased stroke volume ... takes place at the alveoli in the lungs and at the skeletal muscle. This has the effect of increasing the amount of oxygen ...