Skeletal muscle tissue engineering: methods to form skeletal myotubes and their applications

S Ostrovidov, V Hosseini, S Ahadian… - … Engineering Part B …, 2014 - liebertpub.com
Skeletal muscle tissue engineering (SMTE) aims to repair or regenerate defective skeletal
muscle tissue lost by traumatic injury, tumor ablation, or muscular disease. However, two …

Clinical applications of naturally derived biopolymer-based scaffolds for regenerative medicine

WL Stoppel, CE Ghezzi, SL McNamara, LDB Iii… - Annals of biomedical …, 2015 - Springer
Naturally derived polymeric biomaterials, such as collagens, silks, elastins, alginates, and
fibrins are utilized in tissue engineering due to their biocompatibility, bioactivity, and tunable …

Genetic correction of human induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with spinal muscular atrophy

S Corti, M Nizzardo, C Simone, M Falcone… - Science translational …, 2012 - science.org
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is among the most common genetic neurological diseases
that cause infant mortality. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) generated from skin …

Severe neuromuscular denervation of clinically relevant muscles in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy

KKY Ling, RM Gibbs, Z Feng… - Human molecular …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a motoneuron disease caused by a deficiency of the
survival of motor neuron (SMN) protein, is characterized by motoneuron loss and muscle …

Neuromuscular junction formation between human stem cell-derived motoneurons and human skeletal muscle in a defined system

X Guo, M Gonzalez, M Stancescu, HH Vandenburgh… - Biomaterials, 2011 - Elsevier
Functional in vitro models composed of human cells will constitute an important platform in
the next generation of system biology and drug discovery. This study reports a novel human …

Drug treatment for spinal muscular atrophy types II and III

RI Wadman, WL van der Pol… - Cochrane Database …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by a homozygous deletion of the
survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene on chromosome 5, or a heterozygous deletion in …

In vitro differentiation of functional human skeletal myotubes in a defined system

X Guo, K Greene, N Akanda, AST Smith… - Biomaterials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In vitro human skeletal muscle systems are valuable tools for the study of human muscular
development, disease and treatment. However, published in vitro human muscle systems …

SMN in spinal muscular atrophy and snRNP biogenesis

TH Coady, CL Lorson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes function in nearly every facet of cellular activity. The
spliceosome is an essential RNP that accurately identifies introns and catalytically removes …

Drug treatment for spinal muscular atrophy type I

RI Wadman, WL van der Pol… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by a homozygous deletion of the
survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene on chromosome 5, or a heterozygous deletion in …

Electrospun nanofibers facilitate better alignment, differentiation, and long-term culture in an in vitro model of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ)

B Luo, L Tian, N Chen, S Ramakrishna, N Thakor… - Biomaterials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is a specialized synapse between motor neurons and the
muscle fibers they innervate. Due to the complexity of various signalling molecules and …