Stem cells quickly repair damaged muscles

American scientists after conducting muscle stem cell transplantation in young mice suffered from thigh muscle injury found that lab rat muscles recovered faster and stronger than before the injury.

Stem cells. (Illustrative: Internet)

In addition, the implant also helps mice to resist muscle atrophy due to aging.

Professor Bradley Olwen of the University of Colorado (USA), in charge of the research team, said that although there is still no clue as to why the experimental mouse muscle miraculously recovered, however This finding is important to provide a method for treating muscular atrophy.

Muscle stem cells are located between muscle fibers and surrounding organizations, the main effect is to restore and maintain muscle function.

Scientists have implanted muscle stem cells in healthy young mouse mice into muscle-injured mice. The results of the transplanted cells have enabled mice to resist the aging process in muscles.

The thigh muscles of the experimental mice not only recovered after a few days, the quality of the thigh muscles also increased by 50%, the size increased by 170%.

In addition, scientists also discovered that when transplanted muscle cells into healthy mice, muscle quality did not change. According to scientists, stem cell transplantation environment is very important, in different environments the reaction of stem cells is different.

In the short term, scientists are conducting transplantation of stem cells of large humans or animals into experimental mice to verify the effectiveness of the above method.