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ReviewAnnual review of pharmacology and toxicology2019

Muscle Wasting Diseases: Novel Targets and Treatments.

Regula Furrer, Christoph Handschin

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In one paragraph

Review in Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
54citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 96 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Wearable Bioelectronics for Home-Based Monitoring and Treatment of Muscle Atrophy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  17. Epigenetic control of skeletal muscle atrophy.Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Regula FurrerBiozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland; email: regula.furrer@unibas.ch , christoph.handschin@unibas.ch.
Christoph HandschinBiozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland; email: regula.furrer@unibas.ch , christoph.handschin@unibas.ch.
University of Basel · CH

Funding

European Research Council 616830Swiss National Science Foundation 156654
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adequate skeletal muscle plasticity is an essential element for our well-being, and compromised muscle function can drastically affect quality of life, morbidity, and mortality. Surprisingly, however, skeletal muscle remains one of the most under-medicated organs. Interventions in muscle diseases are scarce, not only in neuromuscular dystrophies, but also in highly prevalent secondary wasting pathologies such as sarcopenia and cachexia. Even in other diseases that exhibit a well-established risk correlation of muscle dysfunction due to a sedentary lifestyle, such as type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular pathologies, current treatments are mostly targeted on non-muscle tissues. In recent years, a renewed focus on skeletal muscle has led to the discovery of various novel drug targets and the design of new pharmacological approaches. This review provides an overview of the current knowledge of the key mechanisms involved in muscle wasting conditions and novel pharmacological avenues that could ameliorate muscle diseases.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansMuscle, SkeletalMuscular AtrophyWasting Syndromeatrophyexon skippinggene therapymuscle wastingmuscular dystrophyproteostasis

Identifiers

PMID30148697
PMCPMC6701981
OpenAlexW2889017069

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