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• Are peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors involved in skeletal muscle wasting during experimental cancer cachexia? Role of beta2-adrenergic agonists.

  Implantation of the Yoshida AH-130 ascites hepatoma to rats resulted in a decrease in muscle weight 7 days after the inoculation of the tumor. These c…

  Authors: Gemma Fuster, Sílvia Busquets, Elisabet Ametller, Mireia Olivan, Vanessa Almendro, Cibely Cristine Fontes de Oliveira, Maite Figueras, Francisco J López-Soriano, Josep M Argilés

  Source: Cancer research. 2007 Jul 1

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• Early physiological and biological features in three animal models of induced acute lung injury.

  INTRODUCTION: Critically ill patients often develop acute lung injury (ALI) in the context of different clinical conditions. We aimed to explore diffe…

  Authors: Josefina López-Aguilar, María Elisa Quilez, Octavi Martí-Sistac, Carolina García-Martín, Gemma Fuster, Ferranda Puig, Carlos Flores, Jesús Villar, Antonio Artigas, Lluís Blanch

  Source: Intensive care medicine. 2010 Feb

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• Anticachectic effects of formoterol: a drug for potential treatment of muscle wasting.

  In cancer cachexia both cardiac and skeletal muscle suffer an important protein mobilization as a result of increased proteolysis. Administration of t…

  Authors: Sílvia Busquets, Maria T Figueras, Gemma Fuster, Vanessa Almendro, Rodrigo Moore-Carrasco, Elisabet Ametller, Josep M Argilés, Francisco J López-Soriano

  Source: Cancer research. 2004 Sep 15

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• Effects of CRF2R agonist on tumor growth and cachexia in mice implanted with Lewis lung carcinoma cells.

  Previous studies have demonstrated an effect of corticotropin-releasing factor 2 receptor (CRF2R) agonists in the maintenance of skeletal muscle mass.…

  Authors: Josep M Argilés, Maite Figueras, Elisabet Ametller, Gemma Fuster, Mireia Olivan, Cibely Cristine Fontes de Oliveira, Francisco J López-Soriano, Robert J Isfort, Sílvia Busquets

  Source: Muscle & nerve. 2008 Feb

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• PPARdelta mediates IL15 metabolic actions in myotubes: effects of hyperthermia.

  C2C12 cells exposed to hyperthermia (41 degrees C) experienced an increase in both protein synthesis and degradation. The addition of IL15 under hyper…

  Authors: Gemma Fuster, Sílvia Busquets, Maite Figueras, Elisabet Ametller, Cibely Cristine Fontes de Oliveira, Mireia Oliván, Paul A Grimaldi, Josep M Argilés, Francisco J López-Soriano

  Source: International journal of molecular medicine. 2009 Jul

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• Resveratrol, a natural diphenol, reduces metastatic growth in an experimental cancer model.

  Administration of different doses of the diphenol resveratrol had no effect on the growth of an intramuscularly implanted experimental tumour, the Lew…

  Authors: Sílvia Busquets, Elisabet Ametller, Gemma Fuster, Mireia Olivan, Viktoria Raab, Josep M Argilés, Francisco J López-Soriano

  Source: Cancer letters. 2007 Jan 8

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• Interleukin-15 increases calcineurin expression in 3T3-L1 cells: possible involvement on in vivo adipocyte differentiation.

  Different studies have revealed that the Ca2+-dependent serine/threonine phosphatase calcineurin is involved in the regulation of adipocyte differenti…

  Authors: Vanessa Almendro, Gemma Fuster, Elisabet Ametller, Paola Costelli, Federica Pilla, Sílvia Busquets, Maite Figueras, Josep M Argilés, Francisco J López-Soriano

  Source: International journal of molecular medicine. 2009 Oct

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• Effects of IL-15 on rat brown adipose tissue: uncoupling proteins and PPARs.

  OBJECTIVES: Interleukin-15 (IL-15) plays an important role in lipid metabolism as its administration to rats causes a marked depletion of white adipos…

  Authors: Vanessa Almendro, Gemma Fuster, Sílvia Busquets, Elisabet Ametller, Maite Figueras, Josep M Argilés, Francisco J López-Soriano

  Source: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2008 Feb

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• Antiproteolytic effects of plasma from hibernating bears: a new approach for muscle wasting therapy?

  BACKGROUND & AIMS: In rodents and humans, inactivity or starvation leads to atrophy of skeletal muscle including a decrease in the number and size of …

  Authors: Gemma Fuster, Sílvia Busquets, Vanessa Almendro, Francisco J López-Soriano, Josep M Argilés

  Source: Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland). 2007 Oct

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• Resveratrol does not ameliorate muscle wasting in different types of cancer cachexia models.

  BACKGROUND & AIMS: Resveratrol has been reported to have antitumoural effects and recently it has been demonstrated that resveratrol partially blocks …

  Authors: Sílvia Busquets, Gemma Fuster, Elisabet Ametller, Mireia Olivan, Maite Figueras, Paola Costelli, Neus Carbó, Josep M Argilés, Francisco J López-Soriano

  Source: Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland). 2007 Apr

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