Sentences with phrase «muscle stem cells needed»

The technique also creates a sustainable pool of muscle stem cells needed to support multiple rounds of muscle repair.

«This is crucial because muscle stem cells need to sense their environment to decide whether to produce more stem cells or to form new muscle fibres.

Not exact matches

Led by researchers at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Heart Institute, the study demonstrates the gene Gm7325 and its protein — which the scientists named «myomerger» — prompt muscle stem cells to fuse and develop skeletal muscles the body needs to move and survive.

From this tissue, Post isolated satellite cells, adult stem cells needed to replace dead muscle cells.

First, when muscle is damaged by injury or degenerative disease such as muscular dystrophy, muscle stem cells — or satellite cells — need to differentiate into mature muscle cells to repair injured muscles.

To regain function, connections from the brain to the spinal cord must regrow, different types of immune cells have to clear the injury site, and stem cells in the spinal cord need to generate new nerve cells, which then connect to the muscles.

It is well established that both genes are needed to produce muscle stem cells in the embryo.

Introducing the defined factors, or factors that mimic their effect, directly into the heart to create new heart muscle would avoid the need to inject stem cells into the heart and all the obstacles that go along with such cell - based therapies.»

When our bodies are in need of new fat cells, stem cells will preferentially turn into fat over bone or muscle cells.

Prolotherapy fits into the same category as stem cell therapy — something to consider when you need to «take out the big guns» on a joint or muscle injury that just won't go away.