Inhibiting Myostatin with Follistatin Improves the Success of Myoblast Transplantation in Dystrophic Mice

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a recessive disease due to a mutation in the dystrophin gene. Myoblast transplantation permits to introduce the dystrophin gene in dystrophic muscle fibers. However, the success of this approach is reduced by the short duration of the regeneration following the transpl...

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Main Authors: Basma F. Benabdallah, Manaf Bouchentouf, Joel Rousseau, Pascal Bigey, Annick Michaud, Pierre Chapdelaine, Daniel Scherman, Jacques P. Tremblay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2008-03-01
Series:Cell Transplantation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3727/096368908784153913