Publication Date:
2015-04-15
Description:
Article In response to injury, satellite cells (SCs) asymmetrically divide to self-renew and repair muscle. Here the authors show that a cytokine G-CSF is crucial for long-term expansion of activated SCs and muscle regeneration in mice, suggesting that G-CSF treatment may have beneficial effect in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms7745 Authors: Nozomi Hayashiji, Shinsuke Yuasa, Yuko Miyagoe-Suzuki, Mie Hara, Naoki Ito, Hisayuki Hashimoto, Dai Kusumoto, Tomohisa Seki, Shugo Tohyama, Masaki Kodaira, Akira Kunitomi, Shin Kashimura, Makoto Takei, Yuki Saito, Shinichiro Okata, Toru Egashira, Jin Endo, Toshikuni Sasaoka, Shin’ichi Takeda, Keiichi Fukuda
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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