Talk:Myostatin
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[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
