Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Exercise enhances skeletal muscle regeneration by promoting senescence in fibro-adipogenic progenitors

  • Yuki Saito,
  • Takako S. Chikenji,
  • Takashi Matsumura,
  • Masako Nakano,
  • Mineko Fujimiya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14734-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Some exercises exacerbate chronic inflammation and muscle fibrosis in chronic myopathy. Here, the authors show that senescence of fibro-adipogenic progenitors (FAPs) in response to exercise induces muscle regeneration, and impaired FAP senescence worsens inflammation and fibrosis in chronic myopathy in mice.