“…123). Indeed, apoptosis has been suggested to account for muscle atrophy in many diseases, such as skeletal muscle denervation, immobilization, chronic heart failure, skeletal muscle aging, and muscular dystrophy (Sandri et al, 1998;Libera et al, 1999;Vescovo et al, 2000;Sandri et al, 2001;Pollack et al, 2002;Dirks and Leeuwenburgh, 2002;Siu and Alway, 2005;Machida and Booth, 2005;Jejurikar et al, 2006;Chung and Ng, 2006;Siu and Alway, 2009;Wohlgemuth et al, 2010;Narasimhan et al, 2014). Skeletal muscle abnormalities in PD have been reported to include inflammatory myopathies (Gdynia et al, 2009).…”