Treating muscular dystrophy with stem cells?
There is currently no effective treatment for the devastating muscle-wasting disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Cossu and colleagues report in a recent Nature paper that transplantation of mesoangioblast stem cells may hold promise for treating DMD. Further studies are required to fully evaluate the clinical potential of these blood-vessel-associated stem cells.
Davies
Kay E
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MRC Functional Genetics Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. kay.davies@anat.ox.ac.uk
Grounds
Miranda D
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D000818:Animals; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000166:cytology*; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000628:therapy*; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000502:physiology*