News tagged with muscle growth

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Insulin boost restores muscle growth in elderly

When most people think of insulin, they think of diabetes — a disease that arises when, for one reason or another, insulin can't do the critical job of helping the body process sugar. But the hormone has another, less well-known ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Researchers Shed Light on Muscle Growth Regulator

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at the University of Cincinnati has led to the first published structure of myostatin, a protein that regulates muscle growth in animals, offering hope for major advances in the fight ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Blocking a muscle growth-limiting hormone protects against obesity and atherosclerosis

Knockout of myostatin, a growth factor that limits muscle growth, can decrease body fat and promote resistance against developing atherosclerosis, or "hardening" of the arteries, according to a new study conducted in mice. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Misplaced metamorphosis: Researchers identify source of cells that spur aberrant bone growth

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut have pinpointed the source of immature cells that spur misplaced bone growth. Unexpectedly, the major repository ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers discover target that could ease spinal muscular atrophy symptoms

is no cure for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic disorder that causes the weakening of muscles and is the leading genetic cause of infant death, but University of Missouri researchers have discovered a new therapeutic ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study links molecule to muscle maturation, muscle cancer

Researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered that a molecule implicated in leukemia and lung cancer is also important in muscle repair and in a muscle cancer that strikes ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0