Talk:Myostatin

Interesting trivia

• On the tv-series The Incredible Hulk episode "Death in the Family" (Season 1, ep 2), the protagonist meets an heiress who is being given intravenous injections of a drug called 'Myostatin'. Ultimately, a plot is revealed-- the drug it is revealed that the drug is not ACTUALLY myostatin, but is a poison intended to kill the woman.

  Obviously, this episode aired some 20 years before the discovery of the actual Myostatin.

  Worth mentioning in the article? I doubt it, but.. it is interesting.

  --Alecmconroy 14:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

• Actually, I think it is worth mentioning. The problem however, is how it should be mentioned. Considering what Myostatin deals with, it seems likely that whoever coined the phrase borrowed it from The Incredible Hulk. That being said, you shouldn't just throw that out there as fact. Citations need to be found. In the same vein, Myostatin is also mentioned in the 2008 Incredible Hulk movie (which is what brought me here in the first place, actually).
• In the Hulk episode, what is the supposed effect of the fictional drug myostatin? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:19, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Citation Request

Added a citation request to the claim of John Hopkins holding the patent on Myostatin, as a patent being granted to a naturally occuring protein sounds problematic.

There are myostatin patents, like this one which John Hopkins holds. Probably could be worded better. - Z

Double muscled Whippet

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1341/727663041_63325260bf.jpg?v=0

A more impressive picture. Probably copyrighted, though. 212.108.17.165 10:18, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Article on that whippet (Wendy), available here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=467985&in_page_id=1770. The characteristic overbite of the homozygous mutant is apparent in another picture from the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emw2012 (talk • contribs) 21:07, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Why is this still locked?

For that matter, why was it ever locked? No expiration it either. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.164.58.127 (talk) 22:30, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Really that's just silly. I have a lot of information from development of this protein including photos of "Mighty mouse".

When editing will be open?Westsomething (talk) 08:22, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Dead link

http://listas.cev.org.br/pipermail/cevgenetica/2004-June/000060.html (currently reference 10) is dead. And yeah...why is this still locked? 207.67.17.45 (talk) 20:20, 6 May 2009 (UTC)