Triggering Muscle Development: A Therapeutic Cure For Muscle Wastage?

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 09:42 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have shown that if elderly men who were given growth hormone and exercised their legs showed an appreciable muscle mass increase. Researchers say, "This raises the question: Can age-related loss of muscle strength and increased fragility be ameliorated by the therapeutic application of mechano growth factor?"

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