In a first for tissue engineering, scientists have created slivers of muscle that produce their own network of blood vessels. The accomplishment may provide insights for generating more-complex ...

Stimulating muscle fibers with magnets causes them to grow in the same direction, aligning muscle cells within tissue. The findings offer a simpler, less time-consuming way for medical researchers to ...

Skeletal muscle is the largest metabolic organ in the body. It is composed of muscle fibers, blood vessels, nerves and connective tissue. In skeletal muscle, blood vessels are responsible for ...

MALIGNANT smooth-muscle tumors (leiomyosarcomas) of soft-tissue origin are rare tumors, as indicated by the fact that in a review of the recent surgical literature, only one series, comprising 36 ...

David J. Cohen M.D. In this study, we examined the ability of an allogenically sourced DMM that retains physical and chemical cues to repair a medium 1 × 1 cm and a large 1.5 × 1 cm defect in the rat ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Although the airways of vertebrates are diverse in shape, complexity, and function, they all contain visceral smooth muscle. The morphology, ...

Atherosclerosis underlies most heart attacks and strokes and is now recognized as a chronic inflammatory disease rather than a simple disorder of cholesterol deposition. While immune cells such as ...

Researchers have just made the unexpected discovery of a novel organization of muscle fibers in Parophidion vassali, a fish that lives in the Mediterranean Sea and, like many fish, uses specialized ...

Skeletal muscle is the largest metabolic organ in the body. It is composed of muscle fibers, blood vessels, nerves and connective tissue. In skeletal muscle, blood vessels are responsible for ...