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    Glossary Growth Differentiation Factor 8

    inhibits muscle growth by signaling muscles to stop growing

    Growth Differentiation Factor 8 (GDF-8), also known as Myostatin, is a protein that inhibits muscle growth. It plays a crucial role in regulating muscle mass by signaling muscles to stop growing, ensuring that muscle growth does not become excessive. This protein is of particular interest in medical research for its potential implications in treating muscle-wasting diseases and enhancing muscle growth in livestock.

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    1. Androgens modulate keratinocyte differentiation indirectly through enhancing growth factor production from dermal fibroblasts Journal of dermatological science · 2019 · 20 citations
    2. Growth Differentiation Factor 11 (GDF11)/Transforming Growth Factor - β (TGF - β)/Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) Balance: A Complicated Partnership in Skin Rejuvenation Journal of Embryology & Stem Cell Research · 2019 · 1 citations
    3. Keratinocyte growth factor is an important endogenous mediator of hair follicle growth, development, and differentiation. Normalization of the nu/nu follicular differentiation defect and amelioration of chemotherapy-induced alopecia. PubMed · 1995 · 219 citations
    4. Differentiation of human hair follicle stem cells into endothelial cells induced by vascular endothelial and basic fibroblast growth factors Molecular Medicine Reports · 2013 · 24 citations
    5. 854 Dermal fibroblasts enhance growth factors production by androgens, and modulate keratinocyte proliferation and differentiation 2018
    6. Human hair follicle stem cell differentiation into contractile smooth muscle cells is induced by transforming growth factor-β1 and platelet-derived growth factor BB Molecular Medicine Reports · 2013 · 19 citations
    7. Targeting expression of keratinocyte growth factor to keratinocytes elicits striking changes in epithelial differentiation in transgenic mice. The EMBO Journal · 1993 · 265 citations
    8. Astragalus membranaceus and Cinnamomum cassia Stimulate the Hair Follicle Differentiation-Related Growth Factor by the Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathway Current Issues in Molecular Biology · 2023
    9. Fibroblast Growth Factor-9 Enhances M2 Macrophage Differentiation and Attenuates Adverse Cardiac Remodeling in the Infarcted Diabetic Heart PLOS ONE · 2015 · 44 citations
    10. Cells Derived from Concentrated Growth Factor Exhibit a Multilineage Differentiation Capacity International Journal of Molecular Sciences · 2025 · 1 citations
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