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Glucose restriction: longevity SIRTainly, but without building muscle?

Johan Auwerx, Carlos Canto Alvarez
2008
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The two metabolic sensors AMPK and SIRT1 take center stage as Fulco et al. reveal, in this issue of Developmental Cell, the signaling mechanism by which low glucose prevents the correct development of the myogenic program. These observations may hold some therapeutic promise against muscle wasting.

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Johan Auwerx, Carlos Canto Alvarez
2008
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