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Rejuvenation of the muscle stem cell population restores strength to injured aged muscles.
Nature medicine - 1 Mar 2014
Cosgrove Benjamin D, Gilbert Penney M, Porpiglia Ermelinda, Mourkioti Foteini, Lee Steven P, Corbel Stephane Y, Llewellyn Michael E, Delp Scott L, Blau Helen M
Abstract excerpt
The elderly often suffer from progressive muscle weakness and regenerative failure. We demonstrate that muscle regeneration is impaired with aging owing in part to a cell-autonomous functional decline in skeletal muscle stem cells (MuSCs). Two-thirds of MuSCs from aged mice are intrinsically defective relative to MuSCs from young mice, with reduced capacity to repair myofibers and repopulate the stem cell...
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