Muscle weakness and associated poor fatigue resistance is a major challenge to modern Western Society. It arises due to a reduction in the force producing capacity of skeletal muscle with prolonged unloading due to inactivity (disuse), injury or disease.
This eBook details more about the quest into muscle plasticity, and how the laboratory of muscle plasticity at Balgrist University Hospital aims to expose the molecular and cellular mechanisms underpinning muscle affections in a clinical situations.
