Cell Metabolism
Volume 12, Issue 1, 7 July 2010, Pages 7-9
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Steroids Make You Bigger? Fat Chance Says Myc

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In flies, ecdysone integrates growth with developmental transitions by antagonizing insulin signaling, which links growth with nutritional status. Work in Developmental Cell (Delanoue et. al, 2010) finds that ecdysone represses the transcription factor Myc in the larval fat body to inhibit systemic growth, revealing a mechanism for such coordination.

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