Unlike the skeletal muscle degenerative process, for which treatment options are currently limited, therapy is available for the cardiovascular complications that accompany muscular dystrophy.

As we age, our muscles atrophy. Earlier this year, researchers found that hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), a protein critical in skeletal muscle development loses its functionality due to nitration ...

Gene therapy designed to supply replacement genes to skeletal muscles may hold the key to a cure. Current treatment techniques favor a viral delivery of replacement genes, through what’s known ...

In findings that may eventually lead to targeted therapies that treat age-related muscle atrophy, a group of researchers from ...

Myotonic dystrophy’s main symptoms include general muscle weakness, severe skeletal muscle atrophy, reduced lung capacity, and impaired heart function. Other symptoms include cataracts ...