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

Drugs targeting myostatin reverse muscle wasting in animal models, but have limited efficacy in patients. The authors show that the myostatin pathway is downregulated in patients, possibly explaining the poor outcome of anti-myostatin approaches, and that it can be reactivated by correcting disease-...

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Main Authors: Virginie Mariot, Romain Joubert, Christophe Hourdé, Léonard Féasson, Michael Hanna, Francesco Muntoni, Thierry Maisonobe, Laurent Servais, Caroline Bogni, Rozen Le Panse, Olivier Benvensite, Tanya Stojkovic, Pedro M. Machado, Thomas Voit, Ana Buj-Bello, Julie Dumonceaux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01486-4