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Successful myoblast transplantation in fibrotic muscles: no increased impairment by the connective tissue.
Transplantation - 27 Jun 1999
Brussee V, Tardif F, Roy B, Goulet M, Sebille A, Tremblay J P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Implantation of normal myoblasts may eventually be a treatment for inherited myopathies such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy. METHODS: We report a comparative study of the effectiveness on myoblast implantation: (1) into the muscles of young (2 months) mdx mice nonirradiated and noninjected with notexin (group 1), (2) into muscles of old mdx mice (15 months) nonirradiated and noninjected with notexin...
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