Muscle hypercatabolism during cancer cachexia is not reversed by the glucocorticoid receptor antagonist RU38486

Cancer Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-14

  Llovera, Marta ^a   García Martínez, Cèlia ^a   Costelli, Paola ^b   Agell, Neus ^a   Carbó, Neus ^a   López Soriano, Francisco J ^a   Argilés, Josep M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cancer cachexia; Glucocorticoids; Protein turnover; Skeletal muscle; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GLUCOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST; MESSENGER RNA; MIFEPRISTONE; MUSCLE PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UBIQUITIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCITES HEPATOMA; CACHEXIA; CANCER; CANCER GRAFT; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0343183025     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(95)04026-9     Document Type: Article

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