Loss of myostatin attenuates severity of muscular dystrophy in mdx mice

KR Wagner, AC McPherron, N Winik… - Annals of Neurology …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Myostatin, a transforming growth factor–β family member, is a negative regulator of skeletal
muscle growth. To explore the therapeutic potential of targeting myostatin in settings of …

Myostatin does not regulate cardiac hypertrophy or fibrosis

RD Cohn, HY Liang, R Shetty, T Abraham… - Neuromuscular …, 2007 - Elsevier
Myostatin is a negative regulator of muscle growth. Loss of myostatin has been shown to
cause increase in skeletal muscle size and improve skeletal muscle function and fibrosis in …

Muscle regeneration in the prolonged absence of myostatin

KR Wagner, X Liu, X Chang… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Myostatin is an endogenous inhibitor of muscle conserved across diverse species. In the
absence of myostatin, there is massive muscle growth in mice, cattle, and humans. Previous …

The function of Myostatin and strategies of Myostatin blockade—new hope for therapies aimed at promoting growth of skeletal muscle

K Patel, H Amthor - Neuromuscular Disorders, 2005 - Elsevier
Genetic deletion of Myostatin, a member of the Transforming Growth Factor-beta family of
signalling molecules, resulted in excessive growth of skeletal muscle. It demonstrated the …

[HTML][HTML] Dominant negative myostatin produces hypertrophy without hyperplasia in muscle

X Zhu, M Hadhazy, M Wehling, JG Tidball, EM McNally - FEBS letters, 2000 - Elsevier
Myostatin, a TGF-β family member, is a negative regulator of muscle growth. Here, we
generated transgenic mice that expressed myostatin mutated at its cleavage site under the …

Inhibition of myostatin in adult mice increases skeletal muscle mass and strength

LA Whittemore, K Song, X Li, J Aghajanian… - Biochemical and …, 2003 - Elsevier
A human therapeutic that specifically modulates skeletal muscle growth would potentially
provide a benefit for a variety of conditions including sarcopenia, cachexia, and muscular …

Myostatin blockade improves function but not histopathology in a murine model of limb‐girdle muscular dystrophy 2C

S Bogdanovich, EM McNally… - Muscle & Nerve: Official …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Myostatin is a negative regulator of skeletal muscle growth. Myostatin mutations and
pharmacological strategies increase muscle mass in vivo, suggesting that myostatin …

Myostatin, a negative regulator of muscle mass: implications for muscle degenerative diseases

JF Tobin, AJ Celeste - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2005 - Elsevier
Myostatin is a secreted protein that negatively regulates skeletal muscle mass determining
both muscle fiber number and size. The myostatin pathway is conserved and regulates …

Long-term enhancement of skeletal muscle mass and strength by single gene administration of myostatin inhibitors

AM Haidet, L Rizo, C Handy… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Increasing the size and strength of muscles represents a promising therapeutic strategy for
musculoskeletal disorders, and interest has focused on myostatin, a negative regulator of …

[HTML][HTML] Downregulation of myostatin pathway in neuromuscular diseases may explain challenges of anti-myostatin therapeutic approaches

V Mariot, R Joubert, C Hourdé, L Féasson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Muscular dystrophies are characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscle
tissues. Several drugs targeting the myostatin pathway have been used in clinical trials to …