Muscle Stem Cells Follow 'Ghost Fibers' To Repair Site (VIDEO)

American Society for Cell Biology

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Activated muscle stem/progenitor cells (white) moving within basal lamina remnants, 'ghost fibers' (red) which remain when muscle cells degenerate from injury.

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Micah Webster & Chen-Ming Fan, Carnegie Institute for Science, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz & Uri Manor, NIH NICHD

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