β-Hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate enhances fast-twitch muscle and mitochondrial function, histopathology and mTORC1 signalling in the mdx dystrophic mouse.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is one of the most severe forms of inheritable muscular dystrophies, caused by a genetic mutation resulting in the loss of dystrophin. Dystrophin loss initiates a cascade of negative mechanistic changes in skeletal m…

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