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Study identifies neural mechanism underlying chills during infection

When running a fever during infection, we often feel chills, which prompt us to take action to warm ourselves, such as turning on a heater or adding layers of clothing. Increased body temperature ...
The Scientist

A Researcher’s Dark-Cave Experiment Sheds Light on the Science of “Sensory Deprivation”

As darkness retreats and flotation tanks gain popularity, a UCSD professor examines how “sensory deprivation” experiments ...
IEEE

A System for Reproducible 3D Ultrasound Measurements of Skeletal Muscles

Abstract: In 3D freehand ultrasound imaging, operator dependent variations in applied forces and movements can lead to errors in the reconstructed images. In this paper, we introduce an automated 3D ...
The Lancet

Safety and clinical activity of autologous RNA chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in myasthenia gravis (MG-001): a prospective, multicentre, open-label, non-randomised ...

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Frontiers

Molecular mechanisms of skeletal muscle fibrosis and potential targeted therapeutic strategies

Skeletal muscle fibrosis is a pathological process characterized by excessive deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM). It commonly occurs in various diseases such as muscular dystrophy, aging, cancer ...
PNAS

Estrogen-related receptors regulate innate and adaptive muscle mitochondrial energetics through cooperative and distinct actions

Contributed by Ronald M. Evans; received December 31, 2024; accepted April 8, 2025; reviewed by Grant Barish and Yong-Xu Wang Skeletal muscle predominantly relies on mitochondria for energy production ...