Functional improvement of dystrophic muscle by myostatin blockade

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6914, 2002, Pages 418-421

  Bogdanovich, Sasha ^a   Krag, Thomas O B ^a   Barton, Elisabeth R ^a   Morris, Linda D ^a   Whittemore, Lisa Anne ^b   Ahima, Rexford S ^a   Khurana, Tejvir S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; DISEASES; DRUG THERAPY; ENZYMES; GENES; MUTAGENESIS;

BODY WEIGHT;

MUSCLE;

BLOCKING ANTIBODY; MYOSTATIN;

GENETICS; MUTATION;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE GROWTH; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BODY WEIGHT; CREATINE KINASE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED MDX; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, ANIMAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; ORGAN SIZE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0037191752     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01154     Document Type: Article

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