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Article: Muscle satellite cells and connective tissue can derive from transplanted BM cells.
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- April 8, 2004
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2004 APR 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Muscle satellite cells and muscle connective tissue can derive from transplanted adult BM cells.
According to published research from France, "Skeletal muscle includes satellite cells, which reside beneath the muscle fiber basal lamina and mainly represent committed myogenic precursor cells, and multipotent stem cells of unknown origin that are present in muscle connective tissue, express the stem cell markers Sca-1 and CD34, and can differentiate into different cell types."
P.A. Dreyfus and coauthors at the University of Paris XII "tracked bone marrow (BM)-derived stem cells in both muscle connective tissue and ...