Presently, human collagen VI-related diseases such as Ullrich congenital muscular
dystrophy (UCMD) and Bethlem myopathy (BM) remain incurable, emphasizing the need to …

Background and objective The skeletal muscle is composed of integrated tissues mainly
composed of myofibers ie, long, cylindrical syncytia, whose cytoplasm is mostly occupied by …

Skeletal muscle structure and function are altered in different myopathies. However, the
understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms mainly rely on in vitro and ex vivo …

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) has proven to be a powerful, reliable, and non-
invasive optical method for characterizing a specimen. Nevertheless, these methods are …

Pseudodiaptomus marinus copepods are small crustaceans living in estuarine areas
endowed with exceptional swimming and adaptative performances. Since the external …

9-NαC]-crourorb A1 is a cyclic peptide isolated from Croton urucurana Baillon latex, found in
midwestern Brazil, that has been shown to exert cytotoxic effects against a panel of cancer …

In our recent experimental study we found that variability in sarcomere lengths (SLs) is lower
if we get them from A-band centers (visualized by Second Harmonic Generation microscopy …

La microscopie optique non linéaire est un domaine qui a beaucoup évolué dans les
derniers 25 ans. Ses applications en biologie pour l'étude des tissus sont nombreuses …

Ca 2+ regulates several important intracellular processes. We combined second harmonic
generation (SHG) and two photon excited fluorescence microscopy (2PFM) to …

Second harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy is a second-order nonlinear optical
scattering process that can nondestructively image myosin filament microarchitecture up to …