We recently presented evidence that the subunit eIF3-f of the eukaryotic initiation translation
factor eIF3 that interacts with the E3-ligase Atrogin-1/muscle atrophy F-box (MAFbx) for …

Skeletal muscle atrophy occurs in many chronic diseases and disuse conditions. Its severity
reduces patient recovery, independence and quality of life. The discovery of two muscle …

Interactions between muscle and bone have been recently noted. We reported that the
vestibular system plays crucial roles in the changes in muscle and bone induced by …

Follistatin-related protein (FSRP) is a new addition to the expanding follistatin (FS)-related
gene family whose members contain at least one conserved 10-cysteine follistatin domain …

This issue of 'anabolic and catabolic signals' mainly contains challenging reviews on the
control of muscle mass. Two papers in this issue are devoted to recent progress in the …

The hepatokine follistatin is elevated in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and promotes
hyperglycemia in mice. Here we explore the relationship of plasma follistatin levels with …

Aged skeletal muscle is markedly affected by fatty muscle infiltration, and strategies to
reduce the occurrence of intramuscular adipocytes are urgently needed. Here, we show that …

Non‐Technical Summary Skeletal muscle has the capacity to modify its size in response to
external cues such as mechanical load, neural activity, hormones, stress and nutritional …

Unsuppressed hepatic glucose production (HGP) contributes substantially to glucose
intolerance and diabetes, which can be modeled by the genetic inactivation of hepatic …

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is one of the most common types of
muscular dystrophy, affecting roughly one in 8000 individuals. The complex underlying …