Sentences with phrase «as myokines»
Recently, skeletal muscle has been recognized as an endocrine tissue with the capacity to secrete cytokines and growth factors, known as myokines, which can act on distant tissues.
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If the muscles are not functioning properly or are hypertonic / spastic they are actually producing a host of negative byproducts directly from the muscles themselves as well as through crosstalk to other endocrine tissues via mechanisms related to cytokine / myokine function.