Unlike cortisol, there is no day/night variation in the concentrations of activin A, myostatin, and follistatin in healthy young males. Although energy deprivation-induced cortisol changes are leptin mediated, the changes in follistatin and activin A concentrations occur through a leptin-independent pathway.
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