Corrigendum: Continuous Release of Tumor-Derived Factors Improves the Modeling of Cachexia in Muscle Cell Culture.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2017.

Continuous Release of Tumor-Derived Factors Improves the Modeling of Cachexia in Muscle Cell Culture.

Cachexia is strongly associated with a poor prognosis in cancer patients but the biological trigger is unknown and therefore no therapeutics exist. The loss of skeletal muscle is the most deleterious aspect of cachexia and it appears to depend on secretions from tumor cells. Models for studying wasting in cell culture consist of experiments where skeletal muscle cells are incubated with medium conditioned by tumor cells.