The role of myostatin in muscle wasting:
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Yulia Elkina; Stephan von Haehling; Stefan D. Anker; Jochen Springer
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Article
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2011
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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Myostatin is an extracellular cytokine mostly expressed in skeletal muscles and known to play a crucial role in the negative regulation of muscle mass. Upon the binding to activin type IIB receptor, myostatin can initiate several different signalling cascades resulting in the upregulation of the atr