Fig. 5.

DEC lines (MB^N1/MB^N2and MB^N/MB^DMD) improve muscle force 90 days after intramuscular transplant to GM of mdx/scid mice. In situ muscle force (a) fatigue tolerance (b) and ex vivo muscle force under maximal sine wave stimulation (c) and maximal percent strain (d) in GM of vehicle, not-fused MB, and chimeric cells MB^N1/MB^N2 and MB^N/MB^DMD injected mdx/scid mice. Muscle force was normalized by the isolated GM weight. (a, b; n = 4) (c, d; n = 3) p = 0.04, One-way Anova with Tukey post-hoc test