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Antibody that acts as a decoy for mysotatin and binds it before it starts muscle growth inhibition.

• Last Edited: 11 Oct 2010
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – May 5, 2010 – Acceleron Pharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics that modulate the growth of cells and tissues including muscle, bone, ...

Tags: muscle growth, Myostatin Inhibition, Acceleron.

Systemic myostatin inhibition via liver-targeted gene transfer in normal and dystrophic mice.

• Last Edited: 11 Oct 2010
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BackgroundMyostatin inhibition is a promising therapeutic strategy to maintain muscle mass in a variety of disorders, including the muscular dystrophies, cachexia, and sarcopenia. Previously descr...

Tags: muscle, Myostatin inhibition, human fiber.

Alternatively spliced cDNA of follistatin (FS344) delivered by adeno-associated virus (AAV) to muscle.

• Last Edited: 13 Oct 2010
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In most cases, pharmacologic strategies to treat genetic muscle disorders and certain acquired disorders, such as sporadic inclusion body myositis, have produced modest clinical benefits. In these...

Tags: Myostatin Inhibition, follistatin, muscle disease, muscle enhancement.