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Macrophages rescue injured engineered muscle

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Engineered skeletal muscle self-repairs when incorporating bone-marrow-derived macrophages, which prevent the apoptosis of resident muscle stem cells.

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Fig. 1: BMDMs enhance the survival of adult MuSCs in 3D bioengineered skeletal muscle.

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Wang, Y.X., Blau, H.M. Macrophages rescue injured engineered muscle. Nat Biomed Eng 2, 890–891 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-018-0312-0

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