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.

Background: It is well established that prolonged, exhaustive endurance exercise is capable of inducing skeletal muscle damage and temporary impairment of muscle function. Although skeletal muscle has ...

When fitness experts talk about the body’s major muscle groups and develop training programs, they often refer to skeletal muscles. These include: Many exercises will work at least two different ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered sex-specific differences in how fat accumulates in muscle and ...

Muscle stem cells are adult stem cells, present in skeletal muscle tissue, which can self-renew and are capable of giving rise to skeletal muscle cells. These stem cells are activated in response ...

Cryo-EM leverages ultra-powerful microscopes to ... the researchers accessed fetal tissue samples from cow skeletal muscles.

In this article, Thermo Scientific Visualization Data Solutions discusses how a study using Amira software can help explain why we lose muscle mass as we age.