Muscle disorders: FGF19 reduces muscle wasting

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 16, 528 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrd.2017.132 Author: Megan Cully Muscle wasting can result from numerous conditions, including obesity, sarcopenia and cachexia, as well as long-term glucocorticoid treatment for inflammatory diseases. Writing in Nature Medicine, Benoit and colleagues demonstrate that fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19) can reduce muscle wasting in mice, likely though effects
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