Muscles play a part in every function of the body. The muscular system is made up of over 600 muscles. These include three muscle types: smooth, skeletal, and cardiac. Only skeletal muscles are ...

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 discovered that a key protein controls how stem cells 'choose' to become either skeletal muscle cells that move limbs, or smooth muscle cells that support blood vessels. The results ...

Cardiovascular diseases caused by hypertension, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the clinic. However, the cardiovascular diseases mainly occur in ...

Your body contains both muscles you control, such as your triceps and quads, and muscles you don’t, such as the heart and blood vessels. The muscular system is what allows your body to move. Muscles ...