Advances in Muscle Research in Health and Disease—2nd Edition
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 136
Special Issue Editor
2. Section of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Medical Institute of Dongguk University College of Medicine, 123 Dongdae-ro, Gyeongju 38066, Republic of Korea
3. Channelopathy Research Center (CRC), Dongguk University School of Medicine, Ilsan, Goyang-si 10326, Republic of Korea
Interests: mechanotransduction; cytoskeleton remodeling; proliferation; differentiation; myogenesis; sarcopenia; insulin resistance; diabetes; metabolism; glucose metabolism; lipid metabolism; metabolic diseases; energy metabolism
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Dear Colleagues,
Muscles, consisting of skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle, comprise a significant portion of total body mass and are primarily essential for vital human functions. Muscle is also the largest depot for glucose disposal, amino acid storage, and whole-body metabolism coordination via the consumption, distribution, and transportation of nutrients and other substrates. Muscle homeostasis is regulated by both endogenous and exogenous factors, which interact to influence both its structure and function. The advances in dietary, pharmacological, and therapeutic strategies to maintain muscle health, while stressing the prevention and understanding of muscular-system-related disorders, have highlighted the significance of muscle in recent decades. Furthermore, the recent rediscovery of muscles as endocrine organs has changed innovative notions in biomedicine by broadening the concept of systemic integration.
This Special Issue will explore new insights, aiming to present the most recent findings and advances in this field and outlining prospects in all aspects of muscle research. We encourage original research articles as well as review articles on the structure, types, development, regeneration, functions, and roles of muscles, in addition to discussions of muscle-derived disorders that may affect human health.
Prof. Dr. Wan Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- skeletal muscle
- cardiac muscle
- smooth muscle
- myocyte
- vascular smooth muscle cell
- stem cell
- development
- homeostasis
- regeneration
- biomarker
- therapeutic target
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