Published in:
01-03-2015 | Editorial
Emerging Impact of Skeletal Muscle in Health and Disease
Authors:
Roger A. Fielding, Stuart H. Ralston, Rene Rizzoli
Published in:
Calcified Tissue International
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Issue 3/2015
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Excerpt
It has been over 60 years since Huxley first described the essential force transmitting properties of voluntary striated skeletal muscle [
1]. At no time since then has the importance of skeletal muscle integrity been more pronounced. Although skeletal muscle comprises 40–50 % of total body mass, this tissue has been relatively understudied compared to brain, liver, cardiac, bone, and other tissues. Despite the fact that skeletal muscle is necessary for locomotion, oxygen consumption, whole-body energy metabolism, and substrate turnover and storage, a relative lack of attention has been paid to this tissue that is essential for many daily functions and activities [
2]. …