Nature

Inspiratory muscle training and trunk control exercises on respiratory strength and motor function in spinal muscular atrophy: randomized controlled trial

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a severe neuromuscular disorder caused by a deficiency of the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein due to a homozygous deletion or mutation in the SMN1 gene localized ...
Nature

Endurance exercise-induced histone methylation modification involved in skeletal muscle fiber type transition and mitochondrial biogenesis

Skeletal muscle is a highly heterogeneous tissue, and its contractile proteins are composed of different isoforms, forming various types of muscle fiber, each of which has its own metabolic ...
Outside

Want to Maximize Your Performance? First, Determine Your Muscle-Fiber Type.

Everyone is familiar, at least hand-wavingly, with the distinction between slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscle-fiber types. The former are great for running marathons; the latter are ideal for ...