Catabolic Signaling and Muscle Wasting After Acute Ischemic Stroke in Mice: Indication for a Stroke-Specific Sarcopenia [Basic Sciences]

Conclusions—
Catabolic pathways of muscle tissue are activated after stroke. Impaired feeding, sympathetic overactivation, or infection cannot fully explain this catabolic activation. Wasting of the target muscle of the disrupted innervation correlated to severity of brain injury. Our data indicate the presence of a stroke-specific sarcopenia.

Source: Stroke - November 24, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Springer, J., Schust, S., Peske, K., Tschirner, A., Rex, A., Engel, O., Scherbakov, N., Meisel, A., von Haehling, S., Boschmann, M., Anker, S. D., Dirnagl, U., Doehner, W. Tags: Animal models of human disease, Other Stroke Treatment - Medical Basic Sciences Source Type: research