They were looking for human myoglobin, a protein that is found in muscle tissue.
In extreme cases, statins can destroy muscle tissue in a way that poisons the body, resulting in death.
After the Botox wore off, one group had a face-lifting surgery combined with the removal of muscle tissue or nerves in the area that triggered the migraines.
Fat or muscle was used to fill in the area after tissue was removed.
Once her body starts burning protein for energy, he says, she will be in a race to hit Key West before her body destroys muscle tissue.
His approach involves taking a muscle biopsy from a patient's thigh and then growing the tissue sample in the lab for three weeks until there are 600 million to 800 million of the myoblast cells.
In 1996 bodybuilders started downing whey protein shakes on the theory that ultrafiltered whey would replace damaged muscle tissue.
But scattered throughout that DNA are 20, 000 genes, the recipe books that tell the body how to make proteins such as insulin, muscle, hemoglobin, brain tissue, bone, clotting factor--virtually everything in our bodies.
In studies with mice, tattooing a vaccine produced 16 times more antibodies than a simple injection into muscle tissue.
He has managed to reprogram mouse connective-tissue cells so that they develop into cardiac muscle cells, and has tested them in the hearts of mice that have had heart attacks.
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's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Lipitor or Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Zocor cut the odds of heart attack or stroke in high-risk patients by a third, but they also can cause side effects that destroy muscle tissue and, eventually, the liver.
Duchenne is caused by misspellings in the gene that tells the body to produce a protein called dystrophin, a glue that helps hold muscle tissue together.
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