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Descriptor English: Myostatin
Descriptor Spanish: Miostatina
Descriptor miostatina
Entry term(s) GDF-8
factor 8 de diferenciación del crecimiento
Scope note: Factor de diferenciación del crecimiento que actúa como un potente inhibidor del crecimiento del MÚSCULO ESQUELÉTICO. Puede participar en la regulación de la MIOGÉNESIS y en el mantenimiento muscular durante la edad adulta.
Descriptor Portuguese: Miostatina
Descriptor French: Myostatine
Entry term(s): GDF-8
Growth Differentiation Factor 8
Tree number(s): D12.644.276.954.300.925
D12.776.467.942.300.925
D23.529.942.300.925
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D055435
Scope note: A growth differentiation factor that is a potent inhibitor of SKELETAL MUSCLE growth. It may play a role in the regulation of MYOGENESIS and in muscle maintenance during adulthood.
Allowable Qualifiers: AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AG agonists
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BI biosynthesis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
DE drug effects
DF deficiency
EC economics
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PH physiology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UL ultrastructure
UR urine
Public MeSH Note: 2009; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 8 (now MYOSTATIN) was indexed under TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA 1997-2008
History Note: 2009(1997)
DeCS ID: 53144
Unique ID: D055435
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2009/01/01
Date of Entry: 2008/07/08
Myostatin - Preferred
Concept UI M0275402
Scope note A growth differentiation factor that is a potent inhibitor of SKELETAL MUSCLE growth. It may play a role in the regulation of MYOGENESIS and in muscle maintenance during adulthood.
Preferred term Myostatin
Entry term(s) GDF-8
Growth Differentiation Factor 8



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