Treatment of sarcopenia by antagonists of myostatin

• Main Author: Anissa Anindya Widjaja
• Other Authors: Ravi Kambadur
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Biochemistry
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/53912
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Sarcopenia is a profound loss of skeletal muscle mass, strength, and endurance that occurs with aging. Age-related muscle wasting has been reported even among healthy, physically active individual and the rate of muscle loss has been approximated to range 1-2% annually past the age of 50. Albeit, ex...