ReviewCalcified tissue international2015
The molecular basis for load-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy.
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55 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 105 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Effects of Blood Flow Restriction Training with Protein Supplementation on Muscle Mass And Strength in Older Men.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2019Trial
- The effect of exercise hypertrophy and disuse atrophy on muscle contractile properties: a mechanomyographic analysis.European journal of applied physiology · 2016Trial
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- Rethinking task failure in resistance training research: a framework for submaximal exercise prescription.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Review
- L-Carnosine Enhances the Proliferation and Myogenic Differentiation of Yanbian Cattle Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells for Cultured Meat Production via Activating the Akt/mTOR/P70S6K Signaling Pathway.Food science & nutrition · 2026Article
- Mechanical loading induces the longitudinal growth of muscle fibers via a rapamycin-insensitive mechanism.Science advances · 2026Article
- Beyond muscle weakness: pathogenesis of sepsis-induced myopathy and its management.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2026Review
- Are we giving too much weight to lean mass loss?Molecular metabolism · 2025Review
- Glucocorticoid-induced myopathy: a comprehensive review.Journal of neurology · 2025Review
- Blood flow restriction training: a new approach for preventing and treating sarcopenia in older adults.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Review
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- Effects of Low-Load Blood Flow Restriction Training on Muscle Anabolism Biomarkers and Thrombotic Biomarkers Compared with Traditional Training in Healthy Adults Older Than 60 Years: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Editorial: Sports nutrition: muscle adaptation via supplementation and other nutritional strategies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Molecular clocks, satellite cells, and skeletal muscle regeneration.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2023Review
- Harnessing conserved signaling and metabolic pathways to enhance the maturation of functional engineered tissues.NPJ Regenerative medicine · 2022Review
- Effects of long-term treatment with dietary theobromine on rat skeletal muscles.Molecular biology reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
In a mature (weight neutral) animal, an increase in muscle mass only occurs when the muscle is loaded sufficiently to cause an increase in myofibrillar protein balance. A tight relationship between muscle hypertrophy, acute increases in protein balance, and the activity of the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) was demonstrated 15 years ago. Since then, our understanding of the signals that regulate load-induced hypertrophy has evolved considerably. For example, we now know that mechanical load activates mTORC1 in the same way as growth factors, by moving TSC2 (a primary inhibitor of mTORC1) away from its target (the mTORC activator) Rheb. However, the kinase that phosphorylates and moves TSC2 is different in the two processes. Similarly, we have learned that a distinct pathway exists whereby amino acids activate mTORC1 by moving it to Rheb. While mTORC1 remains at the forefront of load-induced hypertrophy, the importance of other pathways that regulate muscle mass are becoming clearer. Myostatin, is best known for its control of developmental muscle size. However, new mechanisms to explain how loading regulates this process are suggesting that it could play an important role in hypertrophic muscle growth as well. Last, new mechanisms are highlighted for how β2 receptor agonists could be involved in load-induced muscle growth and why these agents are being developed as non-exercise-based therapies for muscle atrophy. Overall, the results highlight how studying the mechanism of load-induced skeletal muscle mass is leading the development of pharmaceutical interventions to promote muscle growth in those unwilling or unable to perform resistance exercise.
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