Cancer cachexia is characterized by a significant reduction in body weight resulting predominantly from loss of adipose tissue and skeletal muscle. Cachexia causes reduced cancer treatment tolerance and reduced quality and length of life, and remains an unmet medical need. Therapeutic progress has been impeded, in part, by the marked heterogeneity of mediators, signaling, and metabolic pathways both within and between model systems and the clinical syndrome. Recent progress in understanding conserved, molecular mechanisms of skeletal muscle atrophy/hypertrophy has provided a downstream platform for circumventing the variations and redundancy in upstream mediators and may ultimately translate into new targeted therapies.
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Univ Alberta, Cross Canc Inst, Dept Oncol, Div Palliat Care Med, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, CanadaUniv Alberta, Cross Canc Inst, Dept Oncol, Div Palliat Care Med, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada
Baracos, Vickie E.
Reiman, Tony
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Dalhousie Univ, St John Reg Hosp, Dept Oncol, St John, NB, CanadaUniv Alberta, Cross Canc Inst, Dept Oncol, Div Palliat Care Med, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada
Reiman, Tony
Mourtzakis, Marina
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Univ Waterloo, Dept Kinesiol, Fac Appl Hlth Sci, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, CanadaUniv Alberta, Cross Canc Inst, Dept Oncol, Div Palliat Care Med, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada
Mourtzakis, Marina
Gioulbasanis, Ioannis
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Univ Hosp Larissa, Div Med Oncol, Larisa, GreeceUniv Alberta, Cross Canc Inst, Dept Oncol, Div Palliat Care Med, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada
Gioulbasanis, Ioannis
Antoun, Sami
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Inst Gustave Roussy, Dept Support Care, Villejuif, FranceUniv Alberta, Cross Canc Inst, Dept Oncol, Div Palliat Care Med, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada
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Univ Alberta, Cross Canc Inst, Dept Oncol, Div Palliat Care Med, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, CanadaUniv Alberta, Cross Canc Inst, Dept Oncol, Div Palliat Care Med, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada
Baracos, Vickie E.
Reiman, Tony
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Dalhousie Univ, St John Reg Hosp, Dept Oncol, St John, NB, CanadaUniv Alberta, Cross Canc Inst, Dept Oncol, Div Palliat Care Med, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada
Reiman, Tony
Mourtzakis, Marina
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Univ Waterloo, Dept Kinesiol, Fac Appl Hlth Sci, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, CanadaUniv Alberta, Cross Canc Inst, Dept Oncol, Div Palliat Care Med, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada
Mourtzakis, Marina
Gioulbasanis, Ioannis
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Univ Hosp Larissa, Div Med Oncol, Larisa, GreeceUniv Alberta, Cross Canc Inst, Dept Oncol, Div Palliat Care Med, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada
Gioulbasanis, Ioannis
Antoun, Sami
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Inst Gustave Roussy, Dept Support Care, Villejuif, FranceUniv Alberta, Cross Canc Inst, Dept Oncol, Div Palliat Care Med, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada