Myostatin: a novel insight into its role in metabolism, signal pathways, and expression regulation

Z Huang, X Chen, D Chen - Cellular signalling, 2011 - Elsevier
Myostatin, a member of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) superfamily, is a critical
autocrine/paracrine inhibitor of skeletal muscle growth. Since the first observed double …

A missense mutant myostatin causes hyperplasia without hypertrophy in the mouse muscle

M Nishi, A Yasue, S Nishimatu, T Nohno… - Biochemical and …, 2002 - Elsevier
Myostatin, which is a member of the TGF-β superfamily, is a negative regulator of skeletal
muscle formation. Double-muscled Piedmontese cattle have a C313Y mutation in myostatin …

Myostatin levels in regenerating rat muscles and in myogenic cell cultures

L Mendler, E Zádor, MV Heyen, L Dux… - Journal of Muscle …, 2000 - Springer
Myostatin is a newly described member of the TGF-β superfamily acting as a secreted
negative regulator of skeletal muscle mass in several species, but whose mode of action …

Myostatin, a negative regulator of muscle growth, functions by inhibiting myoblast proliferation

M Thomas, B Langley, C Berry, M Sharma… - Journal of Biological …, 2000 - ASBMB
Myostatin, a member of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) superfamily, has been
shown to be a negative regulator of myogenesis. Here we show that myostatin functions by …

Loss of myostatin expression alters fiber‐type distribution and expression of myosin heavy chain isoforms in slow‐and fast‐type skeletal muscle

S Girgenrath, K Song… - Muscle & Nerve: Official …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Myostatin (Mstn) is a member of the transforming growth factor‐beta family that negatively
regulates skeletal muscle mass. Mstn knockout mice have greater skeletal muscle mass …

Myostatin short interfering hairpin RNA gene transfer increases skeletal muscle mass

TR Magee, JN Artaza, MG Ferrini… - The Journal of Gene …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Background Myostatin negatively regulates skeletal muscle growth. Myostatin knockout mice
exhibit muscle hypertrophy and decreased interstitial fibrosis. We investigated whether a …

Load-mediated downregulation of myostatin mRNA is not sufficient to promote myofiber hypertrophy in humans: a cluster analysis

J Kim, JK Petrella, JM Cross… - Journal of applied …, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
Myostatin is a potent inhibitor of myogenesis; thus differential expression might be expected
across individuals varying in responsiveness to myogenic stimuli. We hypothesized that …