Skeletal muscle abnormalities are responsible for significant disability in the elderly.
Sarcopenia is the main alteration occurring during senescence and a key public health …

Since their original discovery as regulators of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) secretion
and erythropoiesis, the TGF-β family members activin and inhibin have been shown to …

Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common viral infection, affecting nearly
40,000 infants each year in the United States. Of seronegative women, 1-4% will acquire a …

Skeletal muscle, which accounts for approximately 40% of total body weight, is one of the
most dynamic and plastic tissues in the human body and plays a vital role in movement …

When it was initially discovered in 1923, inhibin was characterized as a hypophysiotropic
hormone that acts on pituitary cells to regulate pituitary hormone secretion. Ninety years …

Despite the lower prevalence of severe mood disorders in the elderly as compared to
younger adults, late-life depression and bipolar disorder (BD) are more strongly associated …

Objective This study examined the effects of exercise training (ExT) upon concentration of
tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and interleukin-10 (IL-10) in the …

A significant proportion of heart failure patients develop skeletal muscle wasting and cardiac
cachexia, which is associated with a very poor prognosis. Recently, myostatin, a cytokine …

Cachexia is a prevalent pathological condition associated with chronic heart failure. Its
occurrence predicts increased morbidity and mortality independent of important clinical …

Background: Physical exercise is a strategy to control hypertension and attenuate pressure
overload-induced cardiac remodeling. The influence of exercise on cardiac remodeling …