Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Regenerating Muscle?

To regenerate muscle, cellular garbage men must become builders

September 22nd, 2009 To regenerate muscle, cellular garbage men must become builders


This microscopy image, taken ten days after injury, shows that the muscle fibres of normal mice (top) had re-grown, while in mice which couldn’t boost C/EBP production (bottom) there were still many fibres that had not regenerated (arrowheads), and the tissue had a number of scars (arrows).

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