Eccentric exercise facilitates mesenchymal stem cell appearance in skeletal muscle.

Eccentric, or lengthening, contractions result in injury and subsequently stimulate the activation and proliferation of satellite stem cells which are important for skeletal muscle regeneration. The discovery of alternative myogenic progenitors in skeletal muscle raises the question as to whether st...

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Main Authors: M Carmen Valero, Heather D Huntsman, Jianming Liu, Kai Zou, Marni D Boppart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22253772/pdf/?tool=EBI