
Matthew S. Alexander
@matt_muscle_guy
Geneticist, Skeletal Muscle, Drug development, Gene therapies. Non-coding RNA, and Zebrafish Aficionado. All tweets are my own. Instagram @thealexanderlab
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https://www.uab.edu/medicine/peds/neurology/neurology-faculty 16-03-2014 22:03:32
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Congrats to Lorson Lab and colleagues for their new Human Molecular Genetics paper: The NeflE397K mouse model demonstrates muscle pathology and motor function deficits consistent with CMT2E. tinyurl.com/yfwkhve7



New Cell Genomics paper: Extensive differential gene expression and regulation by sex in human skeletal muscle. tinyurl.com/43yrj6kp

New Nature Communications paper: Complementing muscle regeneration—fibro-adipogenic progenitor and macrophage-mediated repair of elderly human skeletal muscle. tinyurl.com/yvr65vm9

New Nature Communications paper: TANGO2 binds crystallin alpha B and its loss causes desminopathy. tinyurl.com/spkj5p85






New Cell Stem Cell paper from Helen Blau and colleagues: Multiomic profiling reveals that prostaglandin E2 reverses aged muscle stem cell dysfunction, leading to increased regeneration and strength. tinyurl.com/yvf4cdch


Pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly and Company (w bimagrumab) explore ActRIIA/B inhibitors to combat muscle loss in cancer, aging, and weight-loss (e.g., Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy). Our new study shows quite complex metabolic effects of these inhibitors 😵💫 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…


