Wasting of muscle tissue can also occur with malnutrition and various nerve or muscle ... can cause muscle wasting. For ...

Muscle atrophy is relatively common among patients with ankylosing spondylitis and is linked to disease duration, education levels, and inflammatory markers.

Panelists discuss how spinal muscular atrophy is an autosomal recessive genetic disease affecting motor neurons with 3 ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetic disorder that causes severe muscle weakness. SMA usually affects children, and is typically diagnosed in the first 18 months of life. In its most ...

In their paper the authors stated, “Here we demonstrate that cessation of force transmission across titin results in severe muscle atrophy and dysfunction correlating with gradual sarcomere ...

Before 2016, being born with the most severe form of SMA came with a two-year death sentence. The disease is caused by mutations in the SMN1 gene, which produces a protein essential for motor ...

Background: Quadriceps atrophy is a commonly cited accompaniment to patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS), yet there is little valid, objective evidence for its existence. Objective: To investigate ...