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- Title
Beefing up Muscle.
- Authors
Stephenson, Joan
- Abstract
Reports that research in young dystrophic mice indicates that a type of stem cell can help regenerate skeletal muscle damaged by a genetic disorder that causes muscular dystrophylike symptoms. Publication of the work by investigators in Italy and the U.S.; Isolation of mesoangioblasts from the blood vessels of the mice that lacked a gene; Role of genetic engineering techniques to replace the missing gene; Possible advantage of mesoangioblasts injected into an artery to migrate into and within muscle over other investigational therapies for muscular dystrophy.
- Subjects
MUSCULAR dystrophy; STEM cells; NEUROMUSCULAR diseases; GENETIC disorders; MEDICAL genetics; GENETIC engineering; DYSTROPHY; LABORATORY mice; MOUSE diseases
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003, Vol 290, Issue 6, p740
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.290.6.740-c