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Muscle: Current Research on Isolation or Production of Therapeutic Cells
There are three major types of muscle cells in the body, namely cardiac muscle (cardiomyocytes), smooth muscle, and skeletal muscle. There are several diseases associated with these muscle cell types, but the most prominent among them are cardiovascular disease, which affects cardiomyocytes and smooth muscle cells present in blood vessels, and muscular dystrophy, which is a progressive degeneration of skeletal muscle. Apart from these disorders, normal aging results in degeneration, loss of function, and reduced regenerative capacity of all muscle cells over time.
Cardiac Muscle Cells
Heart disease is one of the world’s most common disorders, and one of the direct effects of a heart attack is the death of cardiac muscle, a loss that reduces the pumping capacity of the heart. Because of a lack ...
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