Sentences with phrase «lacking myostatin»

Here, I show that overexpression of follistatin can also cause substantial muscle growth in mice lacking myostatin, demonstrating that other TGF - ß related ligands normally cooperate with myostatin to suppress muscle growth and that the capacity for enhancing muscle growth by targeting this signaling pathway is much larger than previously appreciated.

By combining the follistatin transgene with a myostatin null mutation, I have been able to generate mice with quadrupled muscle mass, which represents yet another doubling of muscle mass compared to mice only lacking myostatin.

Not exact matches

However, after the primary testing, going from two to three days after the exercise, satellite cells and myostatin molecules had come back to their normal numbers in the higher - protein groups, they were lacking in quantity in the lower - protein group for far longer.

People and animals who have great aesthetics lack GDF - 8, which has the role of creating myostatin.