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Myoblast therapy, or the transfer of normal myoblasts into dystrophic muscle, requires both a large number and high purity of human myoblasts. Solutions to both of these problems are presented below.
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Blau, H.M., Webster, C., Pavlath, G.K. (1990). Purification and Proliferation of Human Myoblasts Isolated with Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting. In: Griggs, R.C., Karpati, G. (eds) Myoblast Transfer Therapy. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 280. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5865-7_12
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