Muscle biopsy is a minor surgical procedure that involves making an incision in the skin to obtain a few small pieces of the underlying muscle for detailed histologic, histochemical, or biochemical ...

A multi-institutional clinical trial led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators has shown that a ...

My hands shook as I texted my husband. I felt unmoored in my body, as if I’d awoken in a different house than the one where I ...

The type 1 ryanodine receptor (RyR1) is an important calcium release channel in skeletal muscles essential for muscle ...

They increase considerably after intensive exercise and in muscle pathology. 1, 2 Muscle biopsy findings have evidenced different activity of total LDH and LDH isozymes in endurance and strength ...

A nerve biopsy involves the process of removing a small length of a peripheral nerve for histologic examination under the microscope. Several nerves can be biopsied but the major requirement for ...

Rarely, muscle twitching can be a sign of a degenerative neurological condition known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). An older name for the condition is Lou Gehrig’s disease. ALS causes ...

Muscle biopsy is used regularly to augment genetic diagnosis, and should be performed, if needed, for molecular diagnosis. A correct molecular diagnosis is highly useful to predict which muscular ...

Though progress is being made in an indication with no known cure and only a handful of treatments, the recent wave of ...

We hypothesize that Duchenne muscular dystrophy and autism spectrum disorder/pervasive developmental disorder co-occur with a greater than random frequency. In this study, we set out to reject the ...

Despite its name, ringworm isn’t an infection caused ... They can also perform a biopsy by removing a small piece of the ...

Smith, the commentator whose voice has been called ‘synonymous with boxing’, speaks to Alex Pattle about his absence from the ...