Sepsis: Cell therapy to repair muscle long-term impairment
Tuesday, December 15, 2015 - 13:01
in Health & Medicine
Researchers reveal mayor players in the severe muscle damage caused by sepsis, or septicemia, which explains why many patients suffer debilitating muscle impairment long-term after recovery. They propose a therapeutic approach based on mesenchymal stem cell transplantation, which has produced encouraging results and has proved successful in restoring muscle capacity in animals.