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PGC-1α promotes nitric oxide antioxidant defenses and inhibits FOXO signaling against cardiac cachexia in mice.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Apr 2011
Geng Tuoyu, Li Ping, Yin Xinhe, Yan Zhen
Abstract excerpt
Chronic heart failure often results in catabolic muscle wasting, exercise intolerance, and death. Oxidative muscles, which have greater expression of the metabolic master gene peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator-1α (PGC-1α) and its target genes, are more resistant to catabolic wasting than are glycolytic muscles; however, the underlying mechanism is unknown. To determine the functional role...
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