In the late 1800s English physiologist John Langley discovered the muscular nicotinic receptor when he tied a frog muscle to a round drum, put nicotine on the muscle and saw it contract.
The benefits go far beyond the Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a disease that is diagnosed in only 600 American boys a year, to diseases like cancer and AIDS. Such drugs could even have a big effect on the muscle weakening that comes with aging.
Today, it is one of the few financial houses on the island with the muscle to crack the increasingly open and competitive international financial services industry.
The extent of disbility from the injury as well as the speed of recovery depends on the grade of muscle strain.
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But two years ago the Solntsevo gang began to muscle in on the Chechens' control of the Moscow auto market.
No wonder the big retail chains are trying to muscle in on the motoring business too.
In the first half alone on Saturday he blocked two shots, grabbed seven rebounds and scored six points, all while providing the Wolverines' only muscle under the basket (on offense and defense) amid a forest of Syracuse players.
The problem was an old flag-football knee injury that had caused muscle atrophy on the injured side.
So the team focused, instead, on the animals' wing muscle.
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Wright was diagnosed with a moderate strain of the intercostal muscle on his left side Friday, an injury that may have been exacerbated by his presence in the WBC.
Through the 1970s scientists focused on the interaction between deposits of cholesterol and the smooth muscle cells of the vessel wall that contains it.
Although some of the deaths occurred in people with underlying diseases such as atherosclerosis (and therefore could have been coincidental), government researchers who examined otherwise healthy dieters who died of ventricular arrhythmias found that the pattern of deaths suggested "the effects of protein-calorie malnutrition on the heart, " including atrophy of the heart muscle.
An old flag-football knee injury had hung around too long, which led to muscle atrophy on the injured side.
According to those following the project, this is a political battle in which the forces on the other side have considerable muscle.
On the tape, Kevorkian injects muscle relaxant into Youk's arm to stop his breathing, and then injects potassium chloride to stop his heart.
The government's forthcoming Gaming Bill - which aims to liberalise Britain's tightly controlled casino industry - could see operators attempt to muscle in on the bookmakers' patch.
Now that TiVo and Replay have caught everyone's attention, set-top box manufacturers and smaller software companies like Metabyte Networks are trying to muscle in on the market.
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Reuben Reid is set to miss out on the right wing with a muscle strain, while Chris Whepldale is also a doubt, but Exodus Geohaghon and Scott Griffiths should both be available.
Next month, for example, Sunderland is due to muscle in on the act with a work by Alison Wilding which, while it will not be taller, will be bigger than anyone else's a set of 10-foot-long back-lit aluminium cylinders bobbing about in the river Wear.
The assessment is based on an analysis of where the animal's spine would have entered the skull and the position of muscle attachments on its head.
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In 2007, however, the Howard government passed an act that allowed it to muscle in on water management in the Murray-Darling basin, constitutionally a state responsibility.
Scientists have measured electrical signals from the beat of heart muscle cells and reconstructed the pattern on a computer.
On a basic level, that is what's happening with Botox for wrinkles -- the muscle is loosening its grip on facial skin.
The impressive outing was big for New York, which placed left-hander Andy Pettitte on the disabled list before the game with a strained left trapezius muscle in his upper back.
In the 58th minute, Mair did tremendously well to out-muscle Paul Quinn and get on the end of Steven Robb's free-kick, but at full stretch Meldrum brilliantly parried the home defender's powerful diving header.
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In humans they sit on nerve cells throughout the body--in the brain, heart and stomach and on skeletal muscle.
Muscle soreness, on the other hand, isn't always a sign to take a day off.
Doctors said later the blast had shredded 80% of the bone and muscle on her left foot and ankle.
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It's possible that doctors will use it with other drugs of the same type, so the FDA may want more studies on the combination of sugammadex with other muscle relaxants.
"Nobody knows if it's a muscle with pressure on the sciatic nerve or if there's a problem with a disk, " Stricker said ot the discomfort he felt during his long day.
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