To regenerate muscle, cellular garbage men must become builders

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 09/21/2009 - 22:00

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) In a study published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, EMBL scientists provide conclusive proof that, when a muscle is injured, white blood cells called macrophages play a crucial role in its regeneration and uncovered the genetic switch that controls this process and uncovered the genetic switch that controls this process, opening the door for new therapeutic approaches to sports injuries and to diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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