Researchers at the [b]University of California, Berkeley[/b], have discovered that the hormone oxytocin is indispensable for healthy muscle maintenance and repair, and that in mice, and is presented in a new study as the latest treatment target for age-related muscle wasting, or sarcopenia, reports [s]Science Daily[/s]. A few other biochemical factors in blood have been connected to aging and disease in recent years, but oxytocin is the first anti-aging molecule identified that is approved by the [b]Food and Drug Administration[/b] for clinical use in humans, the researchers said.
[link url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140610112751.htm]Full Science Daily report[/link]
[link url=http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140610/ncomms5082/full/ncomms5082.html]Nature Communications abstract[/link]