"Muscle, Skeletal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A subtype of striated muscle, attached by TENDONS to the SKELETON. Skeletal muscles are innervated and their movement can be consciously controlled. They are also called voluntary muscles.
| Descriptor ID |
D018482
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.633.567 A10.690.552.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Muscle, Skeletal- Muscle, Skeletal
- Muscle, Voluntary
- Muscles, Voluntary
- Voluntary Muscle
- Voluntary Muscles
- Skeletal Muscle
- Muscles, Skeletal
- Skeletal Muscles
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Muscle, Skeletal" by people in this website by year, and whether "Muscle, Skeletal" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 1997 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 1998 | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| 1999 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 2000 | 11 | 9 | 20 |
| 2001 | 7 | 9 | 16 |
| 2002 | 16 | 9 | 25 |
| 2003 | 16 | 10 | 26 |
| 2004 | 15 | 11 | 26 |
| 2005 | 16 | 12 | 28 |
| 2006 | 13 | 8 | 21 |
| 2007 | 15 | 7 | 22 |
| 2008 | 18 | 7 | 25 |
| 2009 | 19 | 7 | 26 |
| 2010 | 18 | 10 | 28 |
| 2011 | 20 | 11 | 31 |
| 2012 | 15 | 9 | 24 |
| 2013 | 12 | 9 | 21 |
| 2014 | 20 | 10 | 30 |
| 2015 | 12 | 12 | 24 |
| 2016 | 21 | 11 | 32 |
| 2017 | 20 | 8 | 28 |
| 2018 | 16 | 17 | 33 |
| 2019 | 11 | 7 | 18 |
| 2020 | 12 | 9 | 21 |
| 2021 | 13 | 13 | 26 |
| 2022 | 2 | 17 | 19 |
| 2023 | 4 | 17 | 21 |
| 2024 | 6 | 15 | 21 |
| 2025 | 15 | 4 | 19 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Muscle, Skeletal" by people in Profiles.
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Myokine SIRPa exacerbates kidney disease in diabetes. JCI Insight. 2026 Feb 09; 11(3).
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Testosterone plus lifestyle therapy improves skeletal muscle glycolysis in older men with obesity and hypogonadism. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2025; 16:1719749.
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Amino Acid Signaling in Skeletal Muscle Is Blunted by Prematurity in a Piglet Model. J Nutr. 2026 Feb; 156(2):101303.
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Motor evoked potentials as a side effect biomarker for deep brain stimulation. Clin Neurophysiol. 2026 Mar; 183:2111499.
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Tenascin-C from the tissue microenvironment promotes muscle stem cell maintenance and function through Annexin A2. Commun Biol. 2025 Dec 05; 8(1):1709.
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Deletion of fibro-adipogenic progenitors-specific follistatin impairs muscle function and accelerates skeletal muscle atrophy in obese mice. Mol Med. 2025 Nov 21; 31(1):340.
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Phosphorylation of RYR1 at Ser2902 decreases Ca2+ leak in skeletal muscle and susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia and heat stroke. Sci Signal. 2025 Oct 07; 18(907):eadx3087.
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Exploring the link between muscle quality and erectile dysfunction: assessing the impact of mass and strength. Sex Med Rev. 2025 Oct 04; 13(4):643-651.
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Proteins of the Triadic Excitation-Contraction Coupling Complex in Skeletal Muscle. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2025 Oct 01; 17(10).
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Thenar and hypothenar muscle origins on the transverse carpal ligament. J Anat. 2026 May; 248(5):777-783.