Previous studies showed that two genes Pax3 and Pax7, are essential for making the embryonic and neonatal
muscle stem cells in the mouse.
It is well established that both genes are needed to produce
muscle stem cells in the embryo.
In a new study, doctoral student Cajsa Davegårdh has studied so - called DNA methylation in
muscle stem cells in both obese and non-obese individuals.
To their surprise, they found that when old and young mice were joined,
the muscle stem cells in old mice were revitalized.
Under experimental conditions, the researchers then demonstrated that elevated levels of elastase dramatically reduce the survival and operation of
muscle stem cells in culture.
Not exact matches
Instead, LaFlamme's research team
in Toronto is taking a different approach through injecting a billion heart -
muscle cells (otherwise known as cardiomyocytes) that have been developed from
stem cells.
Later, at his own practice
in the Twin Cities, he began injecting
stem cells into patients» hearts to regrow
muscle after a heart attack.
In a study in the journal Science, researchers explain how they used mouse embryonic stem cells and microchip technology to create heart muscle tissue that actually beat
In a study
in the journal Science, researchers explain how they used mouse embryonic stem cells and microchip technology to create heart muscle tissue that actually beat
in the journal Science, researchers explain how they used mouse embryonic
stem cells and microchip technology to create heart
muscle tissue that actually beats.
They also looked for genes not previously studied for having a role
in fusing
muscle stem cells.
Stem cells multiply (proliferate) and mature (differentiate)
in the womb to become
muscle, bone, nerves, etc..
Matthias Nollert at the University of Oklahoma
in Norman and his colleagues coaxed liposuction - derived
stem cells into forming smooth
muscle cells found
in arteries and veins.
Specialized
stem cells known as satellite
cells reside
in skeletal
muscle in an inactive state.
The research, published today
in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, describes the role of TNF receptor - associated factor 6 (TRAF6), an adaptor protein and E3 ubiquitin ligase,
in ensuring the vitality of
stem cells that regenerate
muscle tissue.
Researchers at the University of Louisville have discovered a mechanism involved
in skeletal
muscle repair that may enable clinicians to boost the effectiveness of adult
stem cell therapies for diseases such as muscular dystrophy.
Svendsen is more optimistic about his team's work involving human tests of a novel
stem cell approach to treat ALS, a degenerative motor neuron disease
in which
cells that transmit messages from the brain and spinal cord to the
muscles wither or die.
«
Stem cell therapy regenerates heart
muscle damaged from heart attacks
in primates.»
«Right now the problem
in donor
stem cell therapy is that we inject the
stem cells into the patient but most of the
stem cells don't proliferate very well, so they repair very little part of the
muscle,» Kumar said.
The back - and - forth attachment and removal of methyl groups also fine - tunes gene expression
in stem cells, which can mature, specialize and multiply to become
muscle, bone, nerve, or other
cell types.
Current research is looking at why inhibiting certain molecules, such as mouse protein Stat3, promote
muscle regeneration
in mice and how to engineer orthopedic implants from
stem cells to replace damaged cartilage and bone, but the results of that effort aren't expected to be necessarily aimed at the old.
In DMD, the
stem cells that normally repair damaged
muscle are impaired, for reasons that remain unclear.
First, the
cells are grown
in defined supplements without animal products such as bovine serum, enhancing the clinical safety for the
muscle stem cells.
The new method, described
in the journal
Stem Cells Translational Medicine, could be used to generate large numbers of muscle cells and muscle progenitors directly from human pluripotent stem ce
Stem Cells Translational Medicine, could be used to generate large numbers of muscle cells and muscle progenitors directly from human pluripotent stem c
Cells Translational Medicine, could be used to generate large numbers of
muscle cells and muscle progenitors directly from human pluripotent stem c
cells and
muscle progenitors directly from human pluripotent
stem ce
stem cellscells.
Adapting a method previously used to make brain
cells, Masatoshi Suzuki, an assistant professor of comparative biosciences
in the School of Veterinary Medicine, has directed those universal
stem cells to become both adult
muscle cells and
muscle progenitors.
«It's taken years of trial and error, making educated guesses and taking baby steps to finally produce functioning human
muscle from pluripotent
stem cells,» said Lingjun Rao, a postdoctoral researcher
in Bursac's laboratory and first author of the study.
«But
in the future we might be able to use this technique therapeutically, for example to directly target and correct a mutation
in muscle stem cells and
muscle fibers.»
Researchers could,
in theory, fix genetic malfunctions
in the induced pluripotent
stem cells derived from a patient and then grow small patches of completely healthy
muscle.
For his prototype he is growing mouse
muscle from
stem cells in a petri dish.
In a related paper published online today in Nature Biotechnology, Konrad Hochedlinger of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge and his colleagues compared the gene expression patterns in mouse iPS cells derived from white blood cells, muscle precursor cells, immune system cells called B cells, and fibroblasts taken from tail tip
In a related paper published online today
in Nature Biotechnology, Konrad Hochedlinger of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge and his colleagues compared the gene expression patterns in mouse iPS cells derived from white blood cells, muscle precursor cells, immune system cells called B cells, and fibroblasts taken from tail tip
in Nature Biotechnology, Konrad Hochedlinger of the Harvard
Stem Cell Institute
in Cambridge and his colleagues compared the gene expression patterns in mouse iPS cells derived from white blood cells, muscle precursor cells, immune system cells called B cells, and fibroblasts taken from tail tip
in Cambridge and his colleagues compared the gene expression patterns
in mouse iPS cells derived from white blood cells, muscle precursor cells, immune system cells called B cells, and fibroblasts taken from tail tip
in mouse iPS
cells derived from white blood
cells,
muscle precursor
cells, immune system
cells called B
cells, and fibroblasts taken from tail tips.
«Starting with pluripotent
stem cells that are not
muscle cells, but can become all existing
cells in our body, allows us to grow an unlimited number of myogenic progenitor
cells,» said Nenad Bursac, professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University.
Only blood vessels and
muscle in the section injected with
stem cells lit up.
The day after his disciplinary dismissal from University of Tokyo for «damaging the university's honor or credibility,» Hisashi Moriguchi maintained
in an interview with ScienceInsider that he really did participate
in a groundbreaking experiment to treat a heart disease patient with cardiac
muscle cells derived from the patient's own induced pluripotent
stem (iPS)
cells.
Around 2000, then - postdoc Wagers and other researchers
in Irving Weissman's and Thomas Rando's labs at Stanford revived the method, known as parabiosis, to study the fate of blood
stem cells and
muscle cells.
On the other hand, the problem is, you know, with embryonic
stem cells, they haven't been able to get
stem cell lines from livestock animals that can proliferate
in that way, without just sort of veering up
in their own direction and turning into, instead of
muscle, turning into brain tissue or bone tissue or something else.
In both muscle and the brain, GDF11 appears to work in part by restoring the function of stem cell
In both
muscle and the brain, GDF11 appears to work
in part by restoring the function of stem cell
in part by restoring the function of
stem cells.
In two papers published online 16 November by Nature Medicine, Margaret Goodell of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and her colleagues and Fabio Rossi of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and his colleagues report that the progeny of blood stem cells can indeed contribute to mature muscle tissu
In two papers published online 16 November by Nature Medicine, Margaret Goodell of Baylor College of Medicine
in Houston, Texas, and her colleagues and Fabio Rossi of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and his colleagues report that the progeny of blood stem cells can indeed contribute to mature muscle tissu
in Houston, Texas, and her colleagues and Fabio Rossi of the University of British Columbia
in Vancouver, Canada, and his colleagues report that the progeny of blood stem cells can indeed contribute to mature muscle tissu
in Vancouver, Canada, and his colleagues report that the progeny of blood
stem cells can indeed contribute to mature
muscle tissue.
Various reports
in recent years have claimed that
stem cells from one tissue — for example, blood — can mature into other tissues such as
muscle or brain.
Stem cell source: Bursac obtains
muscle through a biopsy, soaks the
cells in a cocktail of factors and then adds some to a 3 - D environment, a hydrogel that mimics the geometrical shape of a blood clot.
To create different
cell types
in the lab,
stem cells must be coaxed down the road of determination — the branching paths that fetal
cells normally travel to become neurons, skin
cells,
muscle cells, or any number of other
cell types.
«You'd still have to ration the therapy,» cautions Robert Hariri, chief researcher at Anthrogenesis
in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey, which announced this year that it had morphed human placental
stem cells into nerve, blood, cartilage, skin, and
muscle cells.
Previous research conducted by Dr. Badylak's team suggested that ECM also could be used to regenerate lost
muscle by placing the material
in the injury site where it signals the body to recruit
stem and other progenitor
cells to rebuild healthy tissue.
In normal mice, stem cells (pink) express dystrophin (green) and are able to easily generate new muscle fibers, but in the disease model, there is no dystrophin and the stem cells lose their sense of direction and have trouble generating new muscle fiber
In normal mice,
stem cells (pink) express dystrophin (green) and are able to easily generate new
muscle fibers, but
in the disease model, there is no dystrophin and the stem cells lose their sense of direction and have trouble generating new muscle fiber
in the disease model, there is no dystrophin and the
stem cells lose their sense of direction and have trouble generating new
muscle fibers.
In response to
muscle damage, these
stem cells divide to generate precursor
cells that become the fibres that make up our
muscles.
The study, published
in Nature Medicine on November 16, 2015, is the first to show that Duchenne muscular dystrophy directly affects
muscle stem cells.
«For nearly 20 years, we've thought that the
muscle weakness observed
in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy is primarily due to problems
in their
muscle fibres, but our research shows that it is also due to intrinsic defects
in the function of their
muscle stem cells,» said Dr. Michael Rudnicki, senior author of the study.
In a new study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have investigated the number of mutations that accumulate in the muscle's stem cells (satellite cells
In a new study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have investigated the number of mutations that accumulate
in the muscle's stem cells (satellite cells
in the
muscle's
stem cells (satellite
cells).
We have seen how a healthy 70 - year - old has accumulated more than 1,000 mutations
in each
stem cell in the
muscle, and that these mutations are not random but there are certain regions that are better protected,» explains Maria Eriksson, Professor at the Department of Biosciences and Nutrition at Karolinska Institutet.
«
Stem cell study may result
in stronger
muscles in old age.»
A new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet
in Sweden shows how an unexpectedly high number of mutations
in the
stem cells of
muscles impair
cell regeneration.
In the current study, Dr. Rudnicki and his team discovered that muscle stem cells also express the dystrophin protein, and without this protein, they produce ten-fold fewer muscle precursor cells, which in - turn generate fewer functional muscle fibre
In the current study, Dr. Rudnicki and his team discovered that
muscle stem cells also express the dystrophin protein, and without this protein, they produce ten-fold fewer
muscle precursor
cells, which
in - turn generate fewer functional muscle fibre
in - turn generate fewer functional
muscle fibres.
«I'm not sure if we will ever cure Duchenne muscular dystrophy, but I'm very hopeful that someday
in the future, we will have new therapies that correct the ability of
muscle stem cells to repair the
muscles of afflicted patients and turn this devastating, lethal disease into a chronic but manageable condition.»