McMaster Researchers Discover That Muscle Damage Is Illustrated By A Specific Protein

A protein that is only detectable after muscle damage, and it may serve as a way to measure injury, discovers researchers at McMaster University.

"Our results highlight the protein called Xin as a muscle damage biomarker," said Thomas Hawke, principal investigator and an associate professor for the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster.

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"Regardless of the way in which muscle was damaged, either through trauma or disease, Xin was strongly correlated to the degree of damage."

The research will be published in the December issue of The American Journal of Pathology.

The paper explains that the protein Xin is undetectable in muscle biopsies of healthy subjects. However, when muscle damage occurs, Xin becomes detectable and shows a pattern that highly correlates with the amount of muscle damage.

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