Nature Medicine
4, 554 - 555 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0598-554
The 'Fantastic Voyage' of muscle progenitor cellsTerry PartridgeMRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, U.K. email: tpartrid@rpms.ac.uk Myogenic precursor cells in the bone marrow home to sites of muscle damage where they contribute to the formation of new muscle fibers.
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