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SUBMITTER: Itokazu M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9257422 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Itokazu Maki M Onodera Yuta Y Mori Tatsufumi T Inoue Shinji S Yamagishi Kotaro K Moritake Akihiro A Iwawaki Natsumi N Shigi Kanae K Takehara Toshiyuki T Higashimoto Yuji Y Akagi Masao M Teramura Takeshi T
The Journal of biological chemistry 20220606 7
Sarcopenia is an aging-associated attenuation of muscular volume and strength and is the major cause of frailty and falls in elderly individuals. The number of individuals with sarcopenia is rapidly increasing worldwide; however, little is known about the underlying mechanisms of the disease. Sarcopenia often copresents with obesity, and some patients with sarcopenia exhibit accumulation of peri-organ or intra-organ adipose tissue as ectopic fat deposition, including atrophied skeletal muscle. I ...[more]