Repurposing existing therapies may help slow muscle weakness in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a new study ...

Research reveals how brain inflammation triggers extreme muscle weakness across several diseases, including viral infection, bacterial infection and Alzheimer's disease. The study, in fruit flies ...

Previous studies have revealed that sarcopenia is caused by inflammation ... of enzymes involved in BCAA catabolism, were significantly decreased in the skeletal muscle of patients with sarcopenia.

But for unknown reasons, patients with brain inflammation often develop muscle problems that seem to be independent of the central nervous system. Studies by researchers at Washington University ...

Infectious or chronic diseases such as long COVID, Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury can cause inflammation in the brain, or neuroinflammation, that weakens muscles. While ...

Research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reveals how brain inflammation triggers extreme muscle weakness across several diseases, including viral infection, bacterial in ...

While scientists are aware of this link between inflammation and muscle weakness, the molecules and processes involved have been unclear. In our research, our team of neuroscientists and ...

Infectious or chronic diseases such as long COVID, Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury can cause inflammation in the brain, or neuroinflammation, that weakens muscles. While ...