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How gut microbes help mend damaged muscles
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How gut microbes help mend damaged muscles

by Ilima Loomis, Harvard Medical School Graphical abstract. Credit: Immunity (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.01.033 The human immune system is incredibly versatile. Among its most skilled multitaskers are T cells, known for their role in everything from fighting infection to reining in inflammation to killing nascent tumors. Now, in a surprising new discovery, Harvard Medical School researchers have found that a...

Damaged muscles don’t just die, they regenerate themselves
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Damaged muscles don’t just die, they regenerate themselves

KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY IMAGE:  SINGLE MYOFIBERS WERE ISOLATED FROM MOUSE MUSCLE TISSUE IN A SUSPENSION CELL CULTURE. SATELLITE CELLS ON THE MYOFIBER WERE EXPOSED TO COMPONENTS LEAKING FROM DAMAGED MYOFIBERS FOR 72 HOURS BY.. While building a muscle damage model in a cultured system, a research collaboration between Kumamoto University and Nagasaki University in Japan has found that components leaking...