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Cell therapy in muscular dystrophies: many promises in mice and dogs, few facts in patients
16 Jun 2015
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INTRODUCTION: Muscular dystrophies (MDs) are genetic diseases that produce progressive loss of skeletal muscle fibers. Cell therapy (CT) is an experimental approach to treat MD. The first clinical trials of CT in MD conducted in the 1990s were based on myoblast transplantation (MT). Since they did not yield the expected results, several researchers sought to discover other cells with more advantageous properties...
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