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