Abstracts tagged "metabolism and muscle"

Abstract Number: 1294 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Alterations in Activin A-Myostatin-Follistatin System Associate with Disease Activity in Inflammatory Myopathies
Lucia Vernerová¹, Veronika Horvathová ², Tereza Kropáčková ³, Martina Vokurková ², Martin Klein ¹, Sabina Oreska ⁴, Katerina Kubinova ⁵, Herman Mann ⁴, Maja Spiritovic ⁶, Hana Storkanova ¹, Olga Kryštůfková ¹, Michal Tomcik ⁴, Jozef Ukropec ⁷, Barbara Ukropcová ⁷ and Jiří Vencovský ⁴, ¹Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Institute of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic, ³Institute of Rheumatology, Prague, ⁴Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague 2, Czech Republic, ⁵Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague 2, ⁶Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Department of Physiotherapy, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague 2, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, ⁷Institute of Experimental Endocrinology, Biomedical center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Background/Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate myokines involved in muscle atrophy such as myostatin, follistatin and activin A, in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies…