Engineering Skeletal Muscle Tissues from Murine Myoblast Progenitor Cells and Application of Electrical Stimulation
Title:
Engineering Skeletal Muscle Tissues from Murine Myoblast Progenitor Cells and Application of Electrical Stimulation
Author:
van der Schaft, Daisy W. J.
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Publication Information:
Cambridge, MA MyJoVE Corp 2016
Physical Description:
online resource (518 seconds)
Series:
Bioengineering
General Note:
Title from resource description page
Abstract:
Engineered muscle tissue has great potential in regenerative medicine, as disease model and also as an alternative source for meat. Here we describe the engineering of a muscle construct, in this case from mouse myoblast progenitor cells, and the stimulation by electrical pulses.
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For undergraduate, graduate, and professional students
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Electronic Access:
https://www.jove.com/t/4267