This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30971260) and the Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Department Fund of China (No. Qian[2011]2247).
Control of cardiac muscle mass is thought to be determined by a dynamic balance of protein synthe- sis and degradation. Recent studies have demonstrated that atrophy-related forkhead box O 3a (FOXO3a)/muscle atrophy...