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Increasing muscle mass and strength by stopping myostatin

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Follistatin-344 is a hormone-like protein consisting of a chain of 344 amino acids which is activated to follistatin-315 by splitting off 29 amino acids from its carboxyl end. Follistatin-315 toge...

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Increasing Muscle Mass

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Myostatin inhibitionAim: To increase muscle mass by reducing the levels of the muscle growth inhibitor myostatin. Background: There are factors that enhance the formation of muscle and factors tha...

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AAV1-FS344 injected into the quadriceps induced pronounced and durable increases in muscle size and strength in monkey.

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Antagonists of myostatin, a blood-borne negative regulator of muscle growth produced in muscle cells, have shown considerable promise for enhancing muscle mass and strength in rodent studies and c...

Tags: follistatin, gene, muscle growth, muscle cells, muscle mass, strength.