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  • noun Plural form of myoblast.

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  • And 225 million of the progenitor cells, also called myoblasts, are injected into the damaged tissue.

    CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2006 2006

  • GUPTA: A special catheter is then threaded into Charlie's heart and 225 million of the progenitor cells, also called myoblasts, are injected into the damaged tissue.

    CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2006 2006

  • His starting cells will be myoblasts, which normally live at the edges of muscle fibres and help repair the muscles if they are damaged.

    Boing Boing: January 26, 2003 - February 1, 2003 Archives 2003

  • The muscle was grown by seeding a sponge-like, three-dimensional plastic scaffold with myoblasts and endothelial cells, precursors to skeletal muscle and blood vessel cells respectively.

    Working Muscle Grown from Scratch | Impact Lab 2005

  • It takes just two weeks to turn pig stem cells, or myoblasts, into muscle fibers.

    News 2012

  • It takes just two weeks to turn pig stem cells, or myoblasts, into muscle fibers.

    News 2012

  • Dr. Mironov has taken myoblasts -- embryonic cells that develop into muscle tissue -- from turkey and bathed them in a nutrient bath of bovine serum on a scaffold made of chitosan a common polymer found in nature to grow animal skeletal muscle tissue.

    FOXNews.com 2011

  • Dr. Mironov has taken myoblasts -- embryonic cells that develop into muscle tissue -- from turkey and bathed them in a nutrient bath of bovine serum on a scaffold made of chitosan a common polymer found in nature to grow animal skeletal muscle tissue.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Harriet McLeod 2011

  • Dr. Mironov has taken myoblasts -- embryonic cells that develop into muscle tissue -- from turkey and bathed them in a nutrient bath of bovine serum on a scaffold made of chitosan a common polymer found in nature to grow animal skeletal muscle tissue.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • It takes just two weeks to turn pig stem cells, or myoblasts, into muscle fibers.

    News 2012

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