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Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 01:25Donor Muscle Tissue Preparation
- 02:47Minimally Invasive Muscle Embedding (MIME)
- 04:43Intramuscular Myotoxin Injection to Induce Concerted Muscle Degeneration and Regeneration
- 05:36Tissue Collection
- 06:33Evidence of Myogenesis After MIME and Myotoxin Injections
- 08:01Conclusion
We describe a novel experimental technique that we call Minimally Invasive Muscle Embedding (MIME), which is based on the evidence that skeletal muscle tissue contains viable myogenic cells that can facilitate donor-cell-mediated myogenesis when implanted into a host muscle.
