Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 22040608
Skelet Muscle 2011;1:34
Investigations into both the pathophysiology and therapeutic targets in muscle dystrophies have been hampered by the limited proliferative capacity of human myoblasts. Isolation of reliable and stable immortalized cell lines from patient biopsies is a powerful tool for investigating pathological mechanisms, including those associated with muscle aging, and for developing innovative gene-based, cell-based or pharmacological biotherapies.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22040608