Credit: Getty Images Our work suggests that targeting the brain-muscle axis could offer new treatment strategies for muscle fatigue. Infectious or chronic diseases such as long COVID, Alzheimer’s ...

Infections and neurodegenerative diseases cause inflammation in the brain. But for unknown reasons, patients with brain inflammation often develop muscle problems that seem to be independent of the ...

Inflammation has long been portrayed as something inherently bad; a process that needs to be fought or suppressed. In popular ...

Tokyo, Japan - Inflammatory myopathies can be challenging to treat, but a new study reports encouraging findings for patients with these debilitating conditions. Researchers from Japan have found that ...

A new approach that applies anti-inflammatory nanoparticles to chronically inflamed muscles could have major implications for treating muscular dystrophy. Nanoparticles are far smaller than what the ...

DMD can be caused by more than 7,000 unique mutations in the largest gene of the human genome, which encodes a central protein in muscle fibers. While this astounding number of mutations all variably ...

New research published on Thursday finds that kettlebell training may help reduce inflammation and increase muscle strength as we age — even without a history of being physically active. If you’re ...

Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) is an emerging pathogen that has gained global attention for its role in precipitating muscle inflammation in salmon. Infection by PRV is associated with significant tissue ...