TWEAK triggers atrophy of disused muscle

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 08:42 in Biology & Nature

A new study in the Journal of Cell Biology (JCB) identifies a cytokine signalling pathway that induces the breakdown of disused skeletal muscle. Blocking this pathway could prevent immobilised patients from losing their muscle tissue. The article appears in the March 22 issue of the JCB (www.jcb.org)...

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