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Oregon Health & Science University

Muscle Fiber

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Scientists at OHSU Doernbecher found the muscle of rodents with isolated inflammation in the brain undergoes rapid atrophy. This process, they discovered, leads to the rapid release of cortisol into the blood, which acts on muscle to elicit wasting (top photo: normal muscle fibers; bottom photo: atrophied muscle fibers as a result of brain inflammation, release of cortisol).

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Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children's Hospital

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