Metastasis and cachexia: alongside in clinics, but not so in animal models

Abstract Cancer cachexia is a paraneoplastic syndrome characterized by lean mass wasting (with or without fat mass decrease), culminating in involuntary weight loss, which is the key clinical observation nowadays. There is a notable lack of studies involving animal models to mimic the clinical reali...

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Main Authors: Rebeka Tomasin, Ana Carolina Baptista Moreno Martin, Márcia Regina Cominetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12475