The potential of TAOK1 as a new therapeutic target for the treatment of cancer cachexia-associated muscle atrophy.
Cancer cachexia, a multifactorial metabolic syndrome impacts 50-80% cancer patients, is mainly characterized by skeletal muscle atrophy. In this study, we demonstrated that the thousand-and-one amino acid kinase 1 (TAOK1) was activated in both C2C12 myotubes treated with simulated cancer...