Muscles In Muscular Dystrophy Animal Model Improved By Stem-cell Transplantation

Using embryonic stem cells from mice, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have prompted the growth of healthy - and more importantly, functioning - muscle cells in mice afflicted with a human model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.The study represents the first time transplanted embryonic stem cells have been shown to restore function to defective muscles in a model of muscular dystrophy.

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Filed under: Muscular Dystrophy on January 29th, 2008