• Circulation research · Aug 2013

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    Through thick and thin: a circulating growth factor inhibits age-related cardiac hypertrophy.

    • Alexandra C McPherron.
    • Genetics of Development and Disease Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. mcpherrona@niddk.nih.gov
    • Circ. Res. 2013 Aug 16;113(5):487-91.

    AbstractIn an intriguing new study, Loffredo et al report that joining the circulation of old mice with that of young mice reduces age-related cardiac hypertrophy. They also found that the growth factor growth/differentiation factor 11 is a circulating negative regulator of cardiac hypertrophy which suggests that raising growth/differentiation factor 11 levels may be useful to treat cardiac hypertrophy associated with aging.

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