“…Beneficial effects of HMB in human subjects have been reported in several muscledeconditioning conditions characterized by a loss of muscle mass and a decrease in muscle strength and physical performance, for example, cancer cachexia (May et al, 2002), AIDS (Clark et al, 2000), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Hsieh et al, 2006) and aging (Baier et al, 2009;Deutz et al, 2013;Flakoll et al, 2004;Hsieh et al, 2010;May et al, 2002;Stout et al, 2013;Vukovich et al, 2001). Efficiency of HMB in various muscle-deconditioning conditions in rodents and cell lines has also been reported, e.g., experimental models of cachexia (Aversa et al, 2011;Caperuto et al, 2007;Eley et al, 2007;Mirza et al, 2014b;Nunes et al, 2008;Smith et al, 2005), glucocorticoid treatments (Aversa et al, 2012;Baptista et al, 2013;Giron et al, 2015;Nunes et al, 2013), and experimental models of sepsis and endotoxemia (Eley et al, 2008a;Kovarik et al, 2010;Supinski and Callahan, 2014) in response to muscle-wasting treatments such as TNF-α and angiotensin II (Eley et al, 2008a, b), a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Payne et al, 2006), and hypokinesia and hypodynamia models (HU or immobilization) (Alway et al, 2013;Baptista et al, 2013;Hao et al, 2011;Mirza et al, 2014b). In animals, effects of HMB during aging have been studied only in combination with other muscle-deconditioning circumstances (Alway et al, 2013;Hao et al, 2011), and specific studies are needed.…”