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Extraocular muscles may provide key to defensive mechanisms against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A unique type of muscle fiber found in the extraocular muscles has been shown to be resistant against the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and has been shown to even increase in proportion to compensate when other types of muscle fibers decrease in proportion. This finding, by researchers at Umeå University