Source: HealthDay News
Date: July 10, 2008
Summary:
HealthDay News reports researchers have used adult muscle stem cells to successfully treat muscular dystrophy in mice:
"Researchers are reporting that they've managed to repair damaged muscle in mice with a form of muscular dystrophy by injecting them with specialized stem cells from skeletal muscle. There's no guarantee that the treatment will translate to humans with the disease, said study author Amy Wagers, an assistant professor in Harvard University's Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Department. Still, the findings are going to help scientists 'move forward very quickly with human stem cells,' she said. 'It is an important step.' In the new study, Wagers and her colleagues turned to purified stem cells that create muscle. The cells came from healthy adult mice and were injected into mice with a disease that scientists consider to be the equivalent to Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The findings were published in the July 11 issue of Cell."
