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Thin Sheet of Pig Material Spurs Muscle Growth in Humans (5 of 7)

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Thin Sheet of Pig Material Spurs Muscle Growth in Humans (5 of 7)

video: Patient 5. Single leg hop pre-operative evaluation. Tests anterior tibial function. Patient was able to jump 3 inches. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the April 30, 2014, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. B.M. Sicari at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pa., and colleagues was titled, "An Acellular Biologic Scaffold Promotes Skeletal Muscle Formation in Mice and Humans with Volumetric Muscle Loss." view more 

Credit: Video courtesy of Drs. Elke Brown and Fabrisia Ambrosio


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