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Sending Nitric Oxide to muscle cells makes muscle grow? What? Did anyone hear about it? Do you know any more info about it? Where can this procedure be found, how much it costs?
This supposed to be the new "thing" that gives no side effects, and perhaps can make you huge like Dorian yates or ronnie? Anyone know?
:eek
:eek
Found that article at
http://staff.washington.edu/griffin/muscle_cells.txt
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 18:45:50 -0500
From: "Jan Baggerud Larsen, Teamleder 8366" <[email protected]>
Subject: Cellular key to muscle growth found )
I got this from another list. Comments?
Jan
Oslo, Norway
Canadian finds cellular key to muscle growth
Offers potential for those in wheelchairs
Brad Evenson
National Post
Hope has arrived for the world's 98-pound weaklings, says a Canadian
researcher who has found a way to flick the cellular switch that produces
muscles.
"We will now have the ability to make more muscle when we want it and where
we need it," said Dr. Judy Anderson, a muscle cell biologist at the
University of Manitoba.
Dr. Anderson says the research can also be applied to disease treatment,
ageing, agriculture, sports medicine and even space travel.
Until now, the only way to boost muscle growth was through disease or by
injury.
Weightlifting, for example, creates many micro-injuries that cause a muscle
to grow as the tissue is repaired.
"Muscle cells are long, cigar-shaped tubes that go between tendons," Dr.
Anderson explains.
When something goes wrong in a muscle cell, it sends nitric oxide to
so-called satellite cells just above the muscle fibre, which sparks a
muscle-growth process.
"We haven't known how to turn on these satellite cells before," Dr. Anderson
says.
"Now that we do, we have the potential to optimize muscle repair for those
who use wheelchairs or others who are not able to exercise and maintain
regular movement."
Nitric oxide can be released in many ways, such as stretching muscles, or
through muscle and nerve damage.
In some diseases, such as muscular dystrophy, this nitric oxide signal is
disrupted, so that muscle tissue wastes away over time.
In a study published in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell, Dr.
Anderson shows how certain compounds can stimulate the amount of nitric
oxide that muscles release.
"Let me tell you, we've got mice that are on these compounds that are
bigger, stronger and their satellite cells are activated," she says.
"After only a week, there's a major difference in what their muscles are
doing. I don't know if we've got Arnold [Schwarzenegger], but we've got big
changes for sure."
Dr. Anderson sees the first applications of the procedure in rehabilitative
medicine.
"You could say, 'Well, I'm going for surgery. I need the muscle as busy as
it can be as soon as that can happen. So I'm going to activate those cells
now, just before surgery, and I need those repairs faster.' Or let's say
you've had a stroke and you want your rehabilitation to go really well, so
you could actually maintain muscle mass through this mechanism while you
were allowing your nervous system to repair from this stroke."
The technique also has applications for ordinary ageing.
After age 30, muscle mass begins to dwindle in most adults. This causes a
loss of "pull" on bones, which leads to osteoporosis, the loss of bone
density. Similarly, the weightless environment of space travel is understood
to decrease muscle mass, even when astronauts do plenty of exercise.
"One of the things that we're going to be testing is how that will augment
meat production in agriculture," says Dr. Anderson.
"Nitric oxide is something that all species have, so I expect that fish,
chickens and all kinds of things could be affected."
While Olympic athletes and bodybuilders will no doubt be interested, Dr.
Anderson says this technology can also be used to test for illegal
muscle-building drug use. "There's a possibility to turn this around another
way and use it as a screening tool," she says.
Stimulating nitric oxide is a superior technique to steroids and other
compounds, she says, because it is the body's natural muscle-growth system
and it is specific.
=======
This supposed to be the new "thing" that gives no side effects, and perhaps can make you huge like Dorian yates or ronnie? Anyone know?
:eek
:eek
Found that article at
http://staff.washington.edu/griffin/muscle_cells.txt
----
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 18:45:50 -0500
From: "Jan Baggerud Larsen, Teamleder 8366" <[email protected]>
Subject: Cellular key to muscle growth found )
I got this from another list. Comments?
Jan
Oslo, Norway
Canadian finds cellular key to muscle growth
Offers potential for those in wheelchairs
Brad Evenson
National Post
Hope has arrived for the world's 98-pound weaklings, says a Canadian
researcher who has found a way to flick the cellular switch that produces
muscles.
"We will now have the ability to make more muscle when we want it and where
we need it," said Dr. Judy Anderson, a muscle cell biologist at the
University of Manitoba.
Dr. Anderson says the research can also be applied to disease treatment,
ageing, agriculture, sports medicine and even space travel.
Until now, the only way to boost muscle growth was through disease or by
injury.
Weightlifting, for example, creates many micro-injuries that cause a muscle
to grow as the tissue is repaired.
"Muscle cells are long, cigar-shaped tubes that go between tendons," Dr.
Anderson explains.
When something goes wrong in a muscle cell, it sends nitric oxide to
so-called satellite cells just above the muscle fibre, which sparks a
muscle-growth process.
"We haven't known how to turn on these satellite cells before," Dr. Anderson
says.
"Now that we do, we have the potential to optimize muscle repair for those
who use wheelchairs or others who are not able to exercise and maintain
regular movement."
Nitric oxide can be released in many ways, such as stretching muscles, or
through muscle and nerve damage.
In some diseases, such as muscular dystrophy, this nitric oxide signal is
disrupted, so that muscle tissue wastes away over time.
In a study published in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell, Dr.
Anderson shows how certain compounds can stimulate the amount of nitric
oxide that muscles release.
"Let me tell you, we've got mice that are on these compounds that are
bigger, stronger and their satellite cells are activated," she says.
"After only a week, there's a major difference in what their muscles are
doing. I don't know if we've got Arnold [Schwarzenegger], but we've got big
changes for sure."
Dr. Anderson sees the first applications of the procedure in rehabilitative
medicine.
"You could say, 'Well, I'm going for surgery. I need the muscle as busy as
it can be as soon as that can happen. So I'm going to activate those cells
now, just before surgery, and I need those repairs faster.' Or let's say
you've had a stroke and you want your rehabilitation to go really well, so
you could actually maintain muscle mass through this mechanism while you
were allowing your nervous system to repair from this stroke."
The technique also has applications for ordinary ageing.
After age 30, muscle mass begins to dwindle in most adults. This causes a
loss of "pull" on bones, which leads to osteoporosis, the loss of bone
density. Similarly, the weightless environment of space travel is understood
to decrease muscle mass, even when astronauts do plenty of exercise.
"One of the things that we're going to be testing is how that will augment
meat production in agriculture," says Dr. Anderson.
"Nitric oxide is something that all species have, so I expect that fish,
chickens and all kinds of things could be affected."
While Olympic athletes and bodybuilders will no doubt be interested, Dr.
Anderson says this technology can also be used to test for illegal
muscle-building drug use. "There's a possibility to turn this around another
way and use it as a screening tool," she says.
Stimulating nitric oxide is a superior technique to steroids and other
compounds, she says, because it is the body's natural muscle-growth system
and it is specific.
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