Sentences with phrase «transplant muscle stem cells»

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On average the transplanted stem cells regenerated 40 percent of the damaged heart tissue, said Dr. Michael Laflamme, UW assistant professor of pathology, whose team was principally responsible for generating the replacement heart muscle cells.

The investigators found that when LIF - treated muscle stem cells were transplanted to skeletal muscle, they formed two to three times more muscle fibers as control cells did.

«We learned a lot with this animal model, but perhaps the most important finding was what we observed when we transplanted skeletal muscle stem cells,» said Kyba.

The team could isolate muscle stem cells from the male mice before they died and when they transplanted them into muscle - damaged recipient mice, they found that the stem cells were able to regenerate new muscle.