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ReviewTrends in molecular medicine2016

Satellite Cells in Muscular Dystrophy - Lost in Polarity.

Natasha C Chang, Fabien P Chevalier, Michael A Rudnicki

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Review in Trends in molecular medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 117 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

117 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Natasha C ChangSprott Centre for Stem Cell Research, Regenerative Medicine Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada; Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8M5, Canada.
Fabien P ChevalierSprott Centre for Stem Cell Research, Regenerative Medicine Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada; Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8M5, Canada.
Michael A RudnickiSprott Centre for Stem Cell Research, Regenerative Medicine Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada; Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8M5, Canada. Electronic address: mrudnicki@ohri.ca.

Funding

GENETIC REGULATION OF SKELETAL MUSCLE REPAIRR01AR044031 · NIAMS · OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI RUDNICKI, MICHAEL A · 1996 to 2025
$5.6M
CIHRNIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR044031
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent findings employing the mdx mouse model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have revealed that muscle satellite stem cells play a direct role in contributing to disease etiology and progression of DMD, the most common and severe form of muscular dystrophy. Lack of dystrophin expression in DMD has critical consequences in satellite cells including an inability to establish cell polarity, abrogation of asymmetric satellite stem-cell divisions, and failure to enter the myogenic program. Thus, muscle wasting in dystrophic mice is not only caused by myofiber fragility but is exacerbated by intrinsic satellite cell dysfunction leading to impaired regeneration. Despite intense research and clinical efforts, there is still no effective cure for DMD. In this review we highlight recent research advances in DMD and discuss the current state of treatment and, importantly, how we can incorporate satellite cell-targeted therapeutic strategies to correct satellite cell dysfunction in DMD.

Indexed as

Cell PolarityAnimalsCell ProliferationDystrophinGenetic TherapyHumansMiceMice, Inbred mdxMuscle DevelopmentMuscle, SkeletalMuscular Dystrophy, AnimalMuscular Dystrophy, DuchenneSatellite Cells, Skeletal MuscleDystrophinasymmetric divisionDuchenne muscular dystrophydystrophinMark2Par1bPard3regenerative myogenesissatellite cellsstem cell polarity

Identifiers

PMID27161598
PMCPMC4885782

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