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Each team will vary, but I’ve found great success in rotating the project lead role among engineers, helping everyone on the team grow their leadership muscle.
The muscle people are together, and the people with the same hairstyles and the checked shirts.
Here you can think about the brain like a muscle.
And then he took out a third of my quadriceps muscle.
Stem cells may be used to deliver growth factors to repair damaged heart muscle or be differentiated into heart muscle cells to restore heart function.
Why does this far more substantial minority not make a move to exercise its political muscle?
Why not have the quick twitch muscle that will enable you to run faster and longer?
I wanted to help the kids understand that the same muscle that they use to plan the next goal can also be used to navigate the next block.
One was growing out the back and it attached to the psoas muscle, which is a big muscle in the back that I'd never heard of, but all of a sudden I cared about it.
And I thought, "You know, I wonder what my psoas muscle is?"
That's the kidney and the psoas muscle."
But it struck me that I'd never heard of cancer of the heart, or cancer of any skeletal muscle for that matter.
And skeletal muscle constitutes 50 percent of our body, or over 50 percent of our body.
Some articles even went as far as to say that skeletal muscle tissue is resistant to cancer, and furthermore, not only to cancer, but of metastases going to skeletal muscle.
And a lot of the replies I got were that muscle is terminally differentiated tissue.
Meaning that you have muscle cells, but they're not dividing, so it doesn't seem like a good target for cancer to hijack.
But then again, this fact that the metastases didn't go to skeletal muscle made that seem unlikely.
Some of my hypotheses are that when you first think about skeletal muscle, there's a lot of blood vessels going to skeletal muscle.
So first of all I thought, you know, "Wouldn't it be favorable to cancer getting to skeletal muscle?"
And one article that really stood out to me when I was just reading about this, trying to figure out why cancer doesn't go to skeletal muscle, was that it had reported 16 percent of micro-metastases to skeletal muscle upon autopsy.
Meaning that there were these pinpoint tumors in skeletal muscle, but only .16
Is it possible that muscle somehow intuitively knows that it needs this blood supply?
Therefore, when a tumor comes into skeletal muscle tissue, it can't get a blood supply, and can't grow.
Is it possible that skeletal muscle doesn't express this type of molecules?
I mean, there are so many possibilities for why tumors don't go to skeletal muscle.
And what MyoD essentially does is, it causes cells to differentiate into muscle cells.
So this compound, MyoD, has been tested on a lot of different cell types and been shown to actually convert this variety of cell types into skeletal muscle cells.
So, is it possible that the tumor cells are going to the skeletal muscle tissue, but once in contact inside the skeletal muscle tissue, MyoD acts upon these tumor cells and causes them to become skeletal muscle cells?
Maybe tumor cells are being disguised as skeletal muscle cells, and this is why it seems as if it is so rare.
It's not harmful; it has just repaired the muscle.
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