Researchers from University of Maryland School of Medicine Provide Details of New Studies and Findings in the Area of Biomedical Engineering

2011 NOV 17 -- Research findings, "Adherent primary cultures of mouse intercostal muscle fibers for isolated fiber studies," are discussed in a new report. "Primary culture models of single adult skeletal muscle fibers dissociated from locomotor muscles adhered to glass coverslips are routine and allow monitoring of functional processes in living cultured fibers. To date, such isolated fiber cultures have not been established for respiratory muscles, despite the fact that dysfunction of core respiratory muscles leading to respiratory arrest is the most common cause of death in many muscular diseases," scientists in Baltimore, Maryland report.

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