But a new study reveals something often overlooked—how the breakdown of nerve function in diabetes also harms your bones. This quiet connection, hidden deep in the body’s structure, may explain why ...

Skeleton Is An Endocrine Organ, Crucial To Regulating Energy Metabolism Date: August 10, 2007 Source: Columbia University Medical Center Summary: Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center ...

2. The human skeleton is constantly changing in height The change in height of a child in their first year is the most rapid and we have reached our adult height by our mid- to late teens. But even ...

Fat metabolism in the skeletal muscle of obese patients is slower than that of healthy people, which scientists believe is a consequence of abnormal functions in mitochondria (the powerhouses of a ...

"So that kids can learn about the skeletal structure, the form and the function of the skeleton," Coates said. One popular program is the owl pellet dissection classes.

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere, the basic unit of muscle contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain ...

Constant remodelling of bones — up to 10% of the total mass every year — helps to maintain the optimal levels of calcium in the blood and also the structural function of the skeleton, but the identity ...

Letter Published: 17 June 1961 Korotkov's Sounds: a Function of the Skeleton to Transmit ‘Pulsactor’ Signals JOHN E. MALCOLM Nature 190, 1114 (1961) Cite this article ...