Patients with degenerative diseases that attack skeletal muscle tissues, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, may soon benefit from novel stem cell therapies. A study has demonstrated how new ...

Skeletal muscle maintenance and regeneration requires the adult skeletal muscle stem cells or satellite cells. Satellite cells are maintained until late in life when the numbers of satellite cells ...

the limited number of satellite cells present in the muscle tissues has prevented stem cell therapies using skeletal cells from progressing further. Furthermore, culturing skeletal cells has ...

Our group is focused on understanding the role of endothelial and stem cells in heart and skeletal muscle diseases ... we have identified Prox1 transcription factor as an essential regulator of ...

We have isolated and thoroughly characterised a population of skeletal muscle-derived stem cells (MDSCs) that enhance repair of damaged skeletal muscle fibres by directly differentiating into ...

Previous studies have suggested that muscles contain stem cells that can develop ... The authors conclude that skeletal muscle is a promising source of cells that can differentiate into cartilage ...

a critical factor in skeletal muscle development, regeneration, and repair. Their findings were published in the journal ...