Healing Muscle Injury

Regenerative medicine research physicians have successfully implanted bioscaffolds (i.e. extracellular matrix derived from pig bladder tissue) in 13 patients who had muscle loss and failed to respond to other treatments. The scaffolds were applied in sheets where muscle was missing. No stem or other cells were implanted. Six months after this procedure, imaging showed an increase in soft tissue formation for all 13 patients. MORE

Image Credit: University of Pittsburgh, McGowan Institute