Similarly, we did not observe any significantly different change in Nix/Bnip3L (both m-RNA and protein levels), although a trend to increase was observed in non-cachectic patients with respect to both controls and cachectic patients (mRNA) and in cancer patients (non-cachectic or cachectic) with respect to controls (protein) (Fig. 3B,D). Here, BNIP3L is linked to cancer.