This Pulsating Muscle Graft Mimics Benefits of Exercise
The grafts improved muscle, bone and cognition in mice and may also serve as living factories for therapeutic proteins, researchers said.
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(Shanghai=Yonhap News) Correspondent Cha Byeong-seop = Chinese researchers are studying self-moving muscle grafts (myografts), and in the future, to use them on bedridden patients...
A small graft of muscle tissue able to contract continuously has managed to reproduce in mice some of the systemic effects associated with physical exercise: more muscle mass, greater strength and greater bone density. The advance, summarized in a study published in the journal Nature Aging, opens a possible way to treat age-related muscle loss in people who cannot exercise.
Scientists in China have created a self-exercising muscle graft that allows people to build muscle without going to the gym and could help those who are bedridden, according to local media. The study was conducted on rodents, and its results were published in the journal Nature. Also read: China and Egypt strengthen technical and scientific cooperation. The researchers reportedly placed an injection of muscle cells under the skin of mice, after …
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