The loss of muscle mass and strength poses an increasingly significant challenge for an aging society. Prof. Kristina ...

Muscles can only contract and relax, so they always work in pairs called antagonistic muscles. Skeletal muscle is joined to bones. Its cells contract to make bones move and joints bend.

Researchers have developed a new method to grow artificial muscle tissues that can twitch and flex in multiple directions.

Skeletal muscle maintenance and regeneration requires the adult skeletal ... How the numbers of satellite cells are actively maintained by is an as yet unasnwered question. Our group is working to ...

Objective: To systematically compare the skeletal muscle structural and ultrastructural status of endurance athletes with acquired training intolerance (ATI group) with asymptomatic endurance athletes ...

The loss of muscle mass and strength poses an increasingly significant challenge for an ageing society. Prof. Kristina Norman's team at the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE ...