Skylark Bioscience
A Novel Approach to Treating Muscle Loss from all Causes.
About Muscle Loss
Causes of Muscle Loss
Physiological
-Inactivity
Pathological
-Aging
-Starvation
-Muscle Diseases
Neurological
-Denervation of Muscle Tissue
Reality
- Everyone will lose muscle as they age.
- Everyone will lose muscle at different rates.
- Resistance exercise is currently the only way to slow muscle loss.
Questions
- How does aging cause muscle loss?
- What is the state of pharmaceutical research?
-Stem cells
-Gene therapies
-Growth factors
-Hormones and steroids
Our Research
- Skylark is researching the ways in which exercise effects muscle.
- Can resistance exercise be mimicked by small molecule therapeutics?