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NEW YORK — Scientists eased symptoms of muscular dystrophy in mice by injecting modified stem cells from human patients, a preliminary result that raises hopes for treating patients with tissue from their own bodies.
The mice showed stronger muscles and ran longer on a treadmill than diseased mice that weren’t treated.
Other experimental treatments for muscular dystrophy have also produced encouraging results in lab animals. Last year, for example, scientists reported improvements in golden retrievers that had received stem cells from other dogs.
The new work is published in the December issue of Cell Stem Cell by scientists from the University of Milan in Italy, and elsewhere.
