Nearly half of all cancer patients suffer from excessive weight loss due to the loss of adipose and skeletal muscle tissues, or cachexia. This progressive illness not only impairs quality of life for ...

HOUSTON – A newly identified gene, atrogin-1, is involved in muscle loss associated with cancer, diabetes, fasting and kidney disease as well as in the atrophy occurring with disuse, inactivity, and ...

Nearly half of all cancer patients suffer from excessive weight loss due to the loss of adipose and skeletal muscle tissues, or cachexia. This progressive illness not only impairs quality of life for ...

Old people, starving people, AIDS patients, cancer patients, and even astronauts. All these groups and others experience muscle atrophy, the wasting away of muscle fiber. Two research teams have now ...

In research that could benefit astronauts posted to the International Space Station as well as individuals whose universe is defined by their sick bed, Boston University Sargent College researchers ...

Muscle wasting or atrophy is usually caused by not being able to regularly exercise your muscles. Your inability to move may be be due to an injury or an underlying health condition. Muscle atrophy is ...

In cases of muscle wasting that afflicts cancer or AIDS patients, the body turns on itself and breaks down skeletal muscle proteins to liberate amino acids. In cases of muscle wasting that afflicts ...

Striated skeletal muscle is the largest tissue in the body and accounts for about 40% of its total mass and 75% of its cellular mass. It also represents the body's primary amino acid reservoir, and as ...