Myostatin Signalling
The body's own brake on muscle growth. Lowering it removes a ceiling, which is a different kind of effect from raising protein synthesis.
Relationships
3 connectionsMyostatin Signalling suppresses
Androgen Receptor
The receptor every anabolic-androgenic steroid is designed to hit. Binding moves it into the nucleus where it switches on genes for muscle protein synthesis, and in other tissues for hair loss, prostate growth and oil production.
Muscle Protein Synthesis
The rate at which muscle is built. Androgen receptor activation raises it and holds it raised, which is the entire point of the exercise.
Satellite Cells
Dormant stem cells beside each muscle fibre. Androgens push them to divide and fuse into the fibre, which is where new myonuclei come from.
Beyond this page
Myostatin Signalling also connects to 21 entries in the applied modules, covering supplements, compounds, hormones and food sources. Those carry the mechanism and the evidence tier behind each link, and they are part of client coaching.
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