Skeletal-Muscle Regeneration

Abstract

There has been for many years an almost complete lack of communication between the general pathologist and the experimental morphologist on the question of the ability of skeletal muscle to regenerate. I have consistently taught first-year medical students that the difference between muscle regeneration in the lowly salamander on which I work and the mammal was merely one of degree. This idea, I now realize, was routinely erased during the second year, when the same medical students were told by pathologists that neither skeletal nor cardiac muscle can regenerate in the human. The writing of an editorial on the subject . . .