Increased skeletal muscle 11βHSD1 mRNA is associated with lower muscle strength in ageing

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Copyright: © 2013 Kilgour et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: The authors thank the British Heart Foundation and Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government for financial support. AHJK, AMJM and JMS are members of The University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, part of the cross council Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Initiative. Funding from the BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC and MRC is gratefully acknowledged. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF