Definitions

1. A muscle is made up of several muscle bundles, which in turn are made up of muscle fibers.
2. Muscle is degraded to release amino acids for gluconeogenesis.
3. Muscle is composed of muscle cells (sometimes known as "muscle fibers"). (Web site)
4. Muscle is made of protein, and amino acids are the building blocks used to make that muscle protein.
5. The muscle is stiff and has difficulty relaxing, increasing the amount of pressure required to expand when blood flows into the heart.

Pumping Ability

1. If a large area of the heart muscle is damaged, then the pumping ability of the heart may be reduced. (Web site)
2. This further reduces the pumping ability of the already weakened heart muscle. (Web site)

Bcaa

1. An important transaminase reaction involves the branched chain amino acids (BCAA), which occurs primarily in muscle. (Web site)
2. The body's need for alanine and glutamine is increased during exercise is met by BCAA from muscle protein breakdown (Holecek, 2002). (Web site)
3. BCAA or branched chain amino acids are a group of essential amino acids that are absolutely vital to the proper health and functioning of skeletal muscle.

Bcaas

1. In order to get energy, the body can actually break down muscle to get these BCAAs.
2. BCAAs are needed for the maintenance of muscle tissue and appear to preserve muscle stores of glycogen.
3. Also, during recovery from endurance exercise, BCAAs were found to have anabolic effects in human muscle. (Web site)

Emg

1. ELECTROMYOGRAPHY (EMG) - A method of recording the electrical currents generated in a muscle during its contraction.
2. CMT is diagnosed by clinical features of muscle atrophy, age of onset, electromyography (EMG), nerve biopsy and through genetic testing.
3. Electromyography (EMG) is a test that measures the response of muscle fibers to electrical activity.

Muscle Biopsy

1. These include nerve conduction time evaluation, muscle electrical activity (electromyography) and muscle biopsy (microscopic study of muscle tissue).
2. Trauma to the muscle from EMG may cause false results on blood tests (such as creatine kinase), a muscle biopsy, or other tests. (Web site)
3. All patients with progressive external ophthalmoplegia should have a muscle biopsy to look for ragged red fibers or changes suggesting muscular dystrophy.

Muscle Cramps

1. Peripheral neuropathy produces symptoms such as weakness, muscle cramps, twitching, pain, numbness, burning, and tingling (often in the feet and hands). (Web site)
2. Symptoms include fatigue, depression, decreased mental functioning, muscle cramps, nausea, heart enlargement, and eventually beriberi. (Web site)
3. Such symptoms include headache, heart palpitations, excessive sweating, muscle cramps or weakness, or excessive urination. (Web site)

Cramps

1. Symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, lack of appetite, lethargy, blood in the urine, heart problems, seizures, muscle cramps, and others.
2. In those cases, signs and symptoms included irritability, fatigue, apathy, numbness and tingling of the extremities, muscle cramps, nausea and vomiting. (Web site)
3. Symptoms of toxic reactions include muscle cramps, headache, fever, and drowsiness. (Web site)

Striated Muscle

1. Movement — Bones, skeletal muscle Skeletal muscle Skeletal muscle is a form of striated muscle tissue existing under control of the somatic nervous system. (Web site)
2. The muscularis propria of the esophagus consists of striated muscle in the upper third (superior) part of the esophagus. (Web site)
3. Cardiac muscle is a type of involuntary mononucleated, or uninucleated, striated muscle found exclusively within the heart. (Web site)

Striated

1. Striated muscle is also known as striped, skeletal, somatic, or voluntary muscle.
2. One sphincter consists of smooth muscle and its action is involuntary; the other consists of striated muscle and its action is voluntary. (Web site)
3. Skeletal muscle is a form of striated muscle tissue existing under control of the somatic nervous system.

Muscle Tension

1. Most authorities believe that psychological factors, including stress, cause muscle tension which produces the headache. (Web site)
2. Tissue oxygen measurement and 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy in patients with muscle tension and fibromyalgia.
3. Rather, most headaches in children are the result of stress and muscle tension, lack of sleep, orthe common cold, flu, or sinus or ear infection. (Web site)

Leg

1. Numbness, muscle weakness, or paralysis of the face, arm, or leg, usually on one side of the body, and usually occurring suddenly.
2. In addition, there may be numbness, tingling or muscle weakness in the buttocks or leg on the side of the pain. (Web site)
3. Leg (second thigh): Robust bone structure and lean muscle, the groove in the muscle is well marked. (Web site)

Calf Muscle

1. During walking, for instance, the calf muscle acts as a pump, contracting veins and forcing blood back to the heart. (Web site)
2. South Korea's Lee Bae-young was in second place after the snatch but tore a calf muscle in his left leg on his first clean and jerk.
3. The torn calf muscle may spasm, and contract forcefully.

Sphincter

1. Treatment for anal fissures may include stretching the sphincter muscle or surgically removing the tissue or skin in the affected area.
2. In reptiles, the ventricular septum of the heart is incomplete and the pulmonary artery is equipped with a sphincter muscle. (Web site)
3. Sphincter A ring-like band of muscle that opens and closes an opening in the body. (Web site)

Sphincter Muscle

1. In this procedure, the muscle (sphincter muscle) that opens and closes the anus to allow the passage of stool is usually preserved. (Web site)
2. This reflux usually occurs because the sphincter muscle between the esophagus and stomach is weakened. (Web site)
3. When the duodenum is empty, a sphincter muscle (sphincter of Oddi) closes the hepatopancreatic ampulla, and bile backs up and fills the gallbladder.

Nausea

1. Most types of food poisoning cause some combination of abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, muscle pain, weakness, and fatigue.
2. Initial symptoms may include fever, nausea, vomiting, muscle pain, lack of appetite and severe headache. (Web site)
3. Often, these treatments cause flu-like symptoms such as chills, fever, muscle aches, weakness, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. (Web site)

Muscle Pains

1. Lack of Biotin may cause fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, depression, muscle pains, anemia.
2. In humans, common symptoms of influenza infection are fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, and weakness and fatigue. (Web site)
3. Symptoms are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, fever, headache and muscle pains.

Brain

1. When the total CPK level is very high, it usually means there has been injury or stress to the heart, the brain, or muscle tissue. (Web site)
2. Parkinson's disease is caused by progressive deterioration of the nerve cells of the part of the brain that controls muscle movement.
3. People with cerebral palsy have damage to the part of the brain that controls muscle tone.

Blood Supply

1. The ischemia may first be evident during exercise, when the muscle requires increased blood supply to compensate for the increased workload. (Web site)
2. Gangrene occurs when a body part - your skin, muscle or even an organ - loses its blood supply. (Web site)
3. The heart muscle suffers damage when its blood supply is reduced or blocked. (Web site)

Amino Acids

1. Amino acids are the basic component of proteins, the compounds that are essential to the formation of muscle and tissue within the body. (Web site)
2. By acting as the primary catalyst responsible for protein synthesis, amino acids are assimilated into new muscle tissue. (Web site)
3. When amino acid requirements are not met, muscle is broken down into amino acids, which are then sent to the amino acid pool to be used accordingly. (Web site)

Muscles

1. Alcoholic neuropathy can also affect the muscles, resulting in muscle weakness, muscle cramps, muscle spasms and muscle pain.
2. Electromyography (EMG) - An insertion of needle electrodes into muscles to study the electrical activity of muscle and nerve fibers.
3. Electromyography (EMG) uses electrodes to stimulate muscles and evaluate muscle function. (Web site)

Leucine

1. Branched Amino acids (Isoleucine, leucine and valine) can be used to provide energy directly to muscle tissue. (Web site)
2. These three amino acids are labeled BCAAs - leucine, isoleucine and valine - and they're critical for energy and muscle growth. (Web site)
3. Valine is used by bodybuilders, in conjunction with leucine and isoleucine, for muscle growth, tissue repair and as an energizer. (Web site)

Muscle Metabolism

1. Actions and Benefits - For better muscle metabolism, tissue repair, and nitrogen balance, use valine with leucine and isoleucine. (Web site)
2. Valine is an essential amino acid and is required for muscle metabolism, repair and growth of tissue and maintaining the nitrogen balance in the body. (Web site)
3. It has a stimulating effect and is needed for muscle metabolism, repair and growth of tissue and maintaining the nitrogen balance in the body. (Web site)

Connective

1. Sarcoma - cancer that begins in bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.
2. It is continuous with fascia and other connective tissue wrappings of muscle including the endomysium, and perimysium. (Web site)
3. It gives rise to cartilage, muscle, bone, blood, kidneys, gonads and their ducts, and connective tissue. (Web site)

Adipose

1. The entry of glucose into most tissues—including heart, muscle, and adipose tissue —is dependent upon the presence of the hormone insulin. (Web site)
2. Patients with cirrhosis may experience increased conversion of androgenic steroids into estrogens in skin, adipose tissue, muscle, and bone. (Web site)
3. NIDDM is associated with resistance of glucose-utilizing tissues like adipose tissue, muscle, and liver, to the actions of insulin. (Web site)

Breakdown

1. It was hoped that GH would reduce muscle breakdown without interfering with use and reduction of fat as the body shifted to a near-starvation economy. (Web site)
2. A loss of glutamine during exercise may be a signal for protein catabolism (muscle breakdown). (Web site)
3. So to reduce muscle breakdown during exercise a 70kg athlete would consume around 5g of BCAAs. (Web site)

Lean Muscle

1. These factors have also been shown to help increase lean muscle, help the body burn fat for fuel, and assist in wound healing.
2. This in turn can allow the body to experience more energy, build more lean muscle, and burn more fat.
3. The result of collagen loss is wrinkles on the outside and breakdown of lean muscle and connective tissue on the inside.

Ventricle

1. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy describes an abnormal thickening of the muscle of the left ventricle of the heart. (Web site)
2. The left ventricle is almost always affected and in some patients the muscle of the right ventricle also thickens.
3. Over time, thickened heart muscle may become weak and ineffective and the ventricle becomes enlarged (dilated) and its pumping ability becomes less forceful. (Web site)

Thickening

1. If you have left ventricular hypertrophy, your doctor will be able to see thickening of muscle tissue in the left ventricle. (Web site)
2. Leaking or narrowing of your heart valves can lead to stretching and thickening of your muscle (myocardium). (Web site)
3. Type II – a muscle layer disease with obstructive symptoms due to thickening and rigidity of the GI tract. (Web site)

Tendons

1. A horse with insufficient bone is more at risk for injury (within the bones, joints, muscle, tendons, ligaments, and feet).
2. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) affects the soft tissues including muscle, ligaments, tendons, and fat.
3. Thus, connective tissue is not only found as collagen and elastin in the ligaments and tendons; but, it is an important constituent within the muscle. (Web site)

Tendon

1. Tendons connect muscle to bone - tendon - non-elastic, flexible, connective tissue which allows the muscle to pull on the bone to create a movement. (Web site)
2. A tendon (or sinew) is a tough band of fibrous connective tissue that usually connects muscle to bone[1] and is capable of withstanding tension.
3. Sarcoma is cancer of soft tissue (such as muscle), connective tissue (such as tendon or cartilage), and bone.

Muscle Tone

1. An involuntary increase in muscle tone (tension) that occurs following injury to the brain or spinal cord, causing the muscles to resist being moved. (Web site)
2. An atonic seizure is a sudden loss of muscle tone in the muscles that hold the body and head upright.
3. Dilated cardiomyopathy is a disease of the ventricular muscle, characterized by a loss of muscle tone of the heart. (Web site)

Pump Blood

1. As a result the muscle of the heart becomes weak, thin, or floppy and is unable to pump blood efficiently around the body. (Web site)
2. If this is a large and vital area of muscle, the heart may not be able to pump blood effectively and heart failure will occur.
3. It damages the muscle tone of your heart and reduces its ability to pump blood to the rest of your body. (Web site)

Myoglobin

1. Myoglobin is released when the heart or other muscle is injured. (Web site)
2. Myoglobin, the muscle protein that stores and releases oxygen, contains several alpha-helices wound around a central crevice. (Web site)
3. The browning reactions in lean meat are most likely due to the breakdown of the tetrapyrrole rings of the muscle protein myoglobin. (Web site)

Muscle Fiber

1. The endomysium, meaning within the muscle, is a layer of connective tissue that ensheaths a muscle fiber and is composed mostly from reticular fibers. (Web site)
2. Each bundle of muscle fiber is called a fasciculus and is surrounded by a layer of connective tissue called the perimysium. (Web site)
3. The stretching of a muscle fiber begins with the sarcomere (see section Muscle Composition), the basic unit of contraction in the muscle fiber. (Web site)

Patients

1. Patients may experience severe pain at bite site, as well as severe itching, fever, muscle pain, nausea and vomiting.
2. Patients exhibit some of the usual flu symptoms, including coughing, sore throat, headache, fever, weakness, muscle aches, diarrhea and vomiting.
3. Patients with myopathy generally have muscle pain, tenderness or weakness, and an elevation of a muscle enzyme in the blood (creatine kinase).

Muscle Wasting

1. If motor nerves are involved, symptoms may range from a slight loss of muscle tone to paralysis with muscle wasting. (Web site)
2. Muscle wasting The degeneration of a muscle (loss of bulk), caused by disease or starvation.
3. Other symptoms include burning pain, muscle wasting, paralysis or organ or gland dysfunction. (Web site)

Headaches

1. Pain symptoms are also a part of the diagnostic criteria for CFS, and include muscle pain, multi-joint pain, and headaches. (Web site)
2. Severe cases may lead to skin necrosis, muscle spasms and cramps, vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, headaches, excessive sweating, and other symptoms. (Web site)
3. Possible side effects include bone and muscle aches, headaches, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and trouble sleeping.

Headache

1. The most common early symptoms are mild fever, headache, muscle aches, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. (Web site)
2. Common side effects of anesthesia are nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, muscle pain, drowsiness and sore throat. (Web site)
3. Other early warning signs are flu-like symptoms: fever, headache, fatigue, and muscle or joint pains.

Muscle Cell

1. If the postsynaptic cell is a muscle cell rather than a neuron, an excitatory neurotransmitter will cause the muscle to contract.
2. Glutamine literally drives muscle building nitrogen into the muscle cell where it is synthesized for growth.
3. The increased oxygendemand of the cells in providing the mechanical energy required to climb ultimately produces a local hypoxia in the muscle cell. (Web site)

Muscle Cells

1. About 99% of the body's calcium is stored in the bones, but cells (particularly muscle cells) and blood also contain calcium. (Web site)
2. If blood flow is nearly or completely blocked, a heart attack can occur and cause muscle cells in the heart to die.
3. Muscles can only function if calcium from inside the muscle cells can be deported outside the cells. (Web site)

Weight

1. Malabsorption syndrome a pattern of symptoms including loss of appetite and bloating and weight loss and muscle pain and steatorrhea; associated with.
2. Most people lose weight, become dehydrated, have no appetite, and develop muscle aches, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. (Web site)
3. This results in symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, weight gain, cold intolerance, and muscle aches.

Muscle Mass

1. Due to the increased pressures generated by the left ventricle, the myocardium (muscle) of the LV undergoes hypertrophy (increase in muscle mass). (Web site)
2. It serves as a building block for muscle and other proteins, and supplementing with it helps prevent the breakdown of muscle mass during catabolic periods.
3. It helps prevent the breakdown of muscle by boosting the body�s levels of creatine, a compound that helps build muscle mass.

Walls

1. By relaxing the smooth muscle in the walls of the heart and blood vessels, these calcium channel blockers improve the ability of the heart to pump blood. (Web site)
2. In a person with restrictive cardiomyopathy, the muscle in the walls of the heart becomes thickened and less elastic.
3. Smooth muscle cells in the walls of the arteries also regulate blood pressure and contribute to vascular function (Figure 1).

Smooth Muscle

1. PPARs are expressed in fat cells, cells of the liver, muscle, heart, and inner wall (endothelium) and smooth muscle of blood vessels. (Web site)
2. The muscularis is composed of two layers of muscle: an inner circular and outer longitudinal layer of smooth muscle. (Web site)
3. Muscle tissue includes striated (also called voluntary) muscles that move the skeleton, and smooth muscle, such as the muscles that surround the stomach. (Web site)

Myocardium

1. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is the abnormal thickening of the myocardium (muscle) of the left ventricle of the heart.
2. DCM is one of the cardiomyopathies, a group of diseases that primarily affect the myocardium (the muscle of the heart).
3. The heart is a muscle (myocardium) and gets its blood supply from the coronary arteries. (Web site)

Cardiac Muscle

1. The three subtypes of muscle tissue are: 1) striated (skeletal) muscle, 2) smooth (visceral) muscle, and 3) cardiac muscle. (Web site)
2. The walls of the heart consist of cardiac muscle, a special kind of muscle only found in the heart. (Web site)
3. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a thickening of the cardiac muscle that forces the heart to work harder to pump blood.

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