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Topic: Muscle Cells

Related:
  Muscle    Cell  
  Blood Cells    Human T cell  
  Body Muscle    Cell Lung Cancer  
  Fuel Cell    Cell Biology  
  Stem Cell    Back Muscle  
  Brain Cells    Cell Function  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
People talk about their ..:Body Odour
Currently has on their coffee table:New Scientist
Favorite body part(s):Brain,  Lungs,  Skin
Favorite food(s):Anything with salt
Favorite animal(s):Wasps
Interest(s):Biology,  Chemistry
Favorite computer game(s):Minesweeper
Favorite sportsperson(s):Lou Gehrig (baseball)
Favorite drink(s):Milk
Medical note(s):Undergoing therapy,  Has cancer,  Uses laxatives
Ultimate fantasy(s):Cloning themselves
Worst habit(s):Nervous twitch
Favorite quote(s):"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen (1935-)
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
"Fill what's empty , empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
 
 
 Expert Talk
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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer

Liposuction is removing fat cells that are above the muscle layers only and we can never remove all the fat cell that are in your body.
Muscle cells will use their own glucose first, then glucose from the blood, and then glucose from the liver, in that order of preference.
When the muscle cells reject the glucose, the fat tissue becomes a glucose sink.
Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

It is used for culturing bovine smooth muscle cells when supplemented with Bovine Smooth Muscle Cell Growth Supplement.
Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer

It is believed to volumize muscle cells while increasing Growth Hormone levels.
Todd Porter,
Gym Attendent

Muscle is simply a bundle of cells being held together by a connective tissue called collagen tissue.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

ALS is a progressive neuromuscular disease in which specialized nerve cells controlling movement of the voluntary muscles gradually cease functioning and die.
Myogenic stem cells known as satellite cells persist in adult skeletal muscle and are responsible both for the normal growth of postnatal muscle as well as for the regeneration of this tissue following injury.
All other muscles are left with a proportion of residual motor cells sufficient to maintain normal power as judged by clinical examination.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

There were a number of questions from attending scientists about whether there was adequate evidence that the muscle changes could be attributed to the stem cells and not from other factors such as the trauma of the procedure itself.
Relatively little is known about muscle formation because muscle precursor cells are morphologically identical to their neighboring cells which give rise to different internal organs.
Cells such as muscle fibers, neurons and sperm accumulate high levels of phosphorylated guanidino compounds known as phosphagens.
 
 
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