“But you can’t use them to explore cell-specific mechanisms involved in muscle weakness or fatigue.” Alternatives to primary cells include animal models, which may not effectively ...

Alter just one section of the protein responsible for making a muscle cell a muscle cell — and it makes nerve cells instead March 19, 2015 • By Dr. Sabrina Richards / Fred Hutch News Service Muscle ...

Subsequently, the rest of the cell's organelles use this ATP as the source ... the number of mitochondria they contain. For example, muscle cells in people who exercise regularly possess more ...

For instance, in myopathy conditions such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, mitochondria in muscle and skin cells swell and show reduced matrix density. 1 In collaboration with fellow scientists, ...

Mitochondria Organelles that contain the enzymes ... which insulates the nerve cell and speeds up the nerve impulse. Muscle cells contain filaments of protein that slide over each other to cause ...

The heartbeat is carried out by specialized heart muscle cells called cardiomyocytes ... and the connections between different cell organelles responsible for intracellular calcium release.