As a naturally occurring myostatin inhibitor,
follistatin plays a huge role in our ability to acquire muscle mass.
Not exact matches
«There are a lot of hints in the scientific literature that versions of activin or
follistatin or both are activated by injury and may
play a role in regeneration in other animals, but pinning the role of initiating regeneration to them hasn't happened yet.»
However, I carried out a similar set of experiments utilizing
follistatin transgenic mice, which demonstrated that these additional ligands do
play a major role in suppressing muscle growth.