Protein LMOD1 offers new clues to muscle regeneration

Skeletal muscles are capable of regenerating themselves following an injury, a process that depends on muscle stem cells. In healthy resting muscle, these cells are predominantly in a quiescent state. However, following an injury, they are activated, begin to proliferate and subsequently start to develop into specialized skeletal muscle cells (differentiation). These cells then fuse with one another or with existing muscle fibers, generating new or repaired muscle fibers.

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