His team applied, among others, techniques of confocal microscopy and cell sorting by flow cytometry which led to the discovery in
human muscle biopsies that these myoendothelial cells are located adjacent to the walls of blood vessels.
Not exact matches
Using veterinary records and
muscle biopsies, the researchers found five dogs with features that mimicked
human symptoms.
The advance builds on work published in 2015 when researchers at Duke University grew the first functioning
human muscle tissue from cells obtained from
muscle biopsies.
This means that, unlike in
humans, two
biopsies taken from nearby areas of the
muscle can provide very different mixtures of
muscle fibre types.
Biopsies of
human muscle have identified clear differences between sprinters and long - distance runners.
Jeyaraj and her colleagues studied smooth
muscle cells derived from tiny blood vessels harvested from
human skin
biopsies and similar cells from mouse tail arteries.
And once the researchers were actually able to take
muscle biopsies from people before and after, and finally provide proof that mitochondrial efficiency (
human energy production) could be improved, they finally won over the scientific establishment.