EXPERIMENTAL SKELETAL MUSCLE GRAFTS AS A MODEL OF REGENERATION

• Published in: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 35 - 39
• Main Authors: Lawson-Smith, Matthew J., McGeachie, John K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.1997
• Subjects: Animals; grafting; Key words; Mice; Muscle, Skeletal - blood supply; Muscle, Skeletal - innervation; Muscle, Skeletal - physiology; Muscle, Skeletal - transplantation; myoblast; myogenesis; myotube; Rats; regeneration; Regeneration - physiology; reinnervation; revascularization; satellite cell; skeletal muscle; Transplantation, Heterotopic

Background: It is now well established that mature skeletal muscle has the ability to regenerate, and reports on this phenomenon have existed in the research literature for some 40 years. However, it is only relatively recently, largely due to the advances in microsurgery, that practising surgeons c...