Comment · Sat, May 18, 2024 · ND Owner
Study: Acteoside Improves Muscle Atrophy and Motor Function by Inducing New Myokine Secretion in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury
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MisterYouAreSoDumb · 36 points
We found a study on acteoside (verbascoside) from Cistanche that is really interesting!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6599386/
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I'll copy the abstract below, and some highlights I found particularly cool.
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Chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) is difficult to cure, even by several approaches effective at the acute or subacute phase. We focused on skeletal muscle atrophy as a detrimental factor in chronic SCI and explored drugs that protect against muscle atrophy and activate secretion of axonal growth factors from skeletal muscle. We found that acteoside induced the secretion of axonal growth factors from skeletal muscle cells and proliferation of these cells. Intramuscular injection of acteoside in mice with chronic SCI recovered skeletal muscle weight reduction and motor function impairment. We also identified pyruvate kinase isoform M2 (PKM2) as a secreted factor from skeletal muscle cells, stimulated by acteoside. Extracellular PKM2 enhanced proliferation of skeletal muscle cells and axonal growth in cultured neurons. Further, we showed that PKM2 might cross the blood–brain b…
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mrjasonbbc · 3 points
Nice find!
Related/unrelated: the site and pretty much all cistanche products on it use the spelling "acetoside" vice what I've usually read as "acteoside". I forgot to bring it up some time ago and this post reminded me. 🙂
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
It's weird. Acteoside, acetoside, and verbascoside are all the same thing. They are just different names for the same molecule. It was confusing for us as well. We started using acetoside, and stuck with it. I'm half tempted to switch to verbascoside. It doesn't help that different studies use different terms.