Myonuclei
The nuclei inside a muscle fibre, each running a patch of it. Androgens add them, and animal work shows the added ones persist for a long time after the drug is gone. This is the cell-level reason a past cycle is never entirely undone.
Relationships
3 connectionsMyonuclei stimulates
Androgen Receptor
The receptor every anabolic-androgenic steroid is designed to hit. Binding moves it into the nucleus where it switches on genes for muscle protein synthesis, and in other tissues for hair loss, prostate growth and oil production.
Muscle Protein Synthesis
The rate at which muscle is built. Androgen receptor activation raises it and holds it raised, which is the entire point of the exercise.
Satellite Cells
Dormant stem cells beside each muscle fibre. Androgens push them to divide and fuse into the fibre, which is where new myonuclei come from.
Beyond this page
Myonuclei also connects to 14 entries in the applied modules, covering supplements, compounds, hormones and food sources. Those carry the mechanism and the evidence tier behind each link, and they are part of client coaching.
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