Wasting is essential: cachexia is driven by a wound-healing adaptation
Background: Several explanations have been given for why cachexia occurs in the presence of severe acute wounds and chronic diseases. None of these explanations address the scope of clinical settings in which cachexia has been observed, nor do they account for the failure of nutritional support to reverse cachexia. We hypothesize that induced muscle wasting (IMW) is an adaptation to support wound…
We haven't written up this one. bioRxiv has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
