PUMPED UP Muscles in mice treated with steroids (right) grow bigger than muscles in undrugged mice (left). Steroids also increase the number of a muscle cell’s nuclei, which may help rebuild mass long after the steroids are gone.
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Once a cheater, always a cheater, a mouse study found — at least when it comes to steroids.