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Blocking myostatin
Email: Jonathan Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20021128-03 doi:10.1186/20021128-03
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Myostatin is a member of the TGF-β family and is thought to function as a negative regulator of skeletal muscle growth. In the November 28 Nature, Sasha Bogdanovich and colleagues demonstrate that inhibition of myostatin could be used as a therapeutic approach to increase muscle mass and treat myopathy diseases (Nature, 420:418-421, November 28, 2002).
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