Activin A more prominently regulates muscle mass in primates than does GDF8

Activin A more prominently regulates muscle mass in primates than does GDF8

Inhibition of GDF8 increases muscle mass in mice, but is less effective in monkeys and humans. Here the authors show that activin A also inhibits muscle hypertrophy and that concomitant inhibition of activin A and GDF8 synergistically increases muscle mass in mice and non-human primates.

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Main Authors: Esther Latres, Jason Mastaitis, Wen Fury, Lawrence Miloscio, Jesus Trejos, Jeffrey Pangilinan, Haruka Okamoto, Katie Cavino, Erqian Na, Angelos Papatheodorou, Tobias Willer, Yu Bai, Jee Hae Kim, Ashique Rafique, Stephen Jaspers, Trevor Stitt, Andrew J. Murphy, George D. Yancopoulos, Jesper Gromada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15153

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