Mechanotransduction and Tissue Regeneration in Skeletal Muscle
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 225
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue shall focus on a fundamental question in skeletal muscle physiology: how are mechanical activities translated into biochemical pathways that maintain muscle tissue maintenance, repair, and function? The key components of this complex system are muscle spindles that are encapsulated sensory stretch detectors embedded in nearly every skeletal muscle. Although not specifically characterized, macrophages that reside in muscle spindles may play important roles in muscle tissue maintenance and repair. Thus, this Special Issue is committed to sharing new insights (review articles) and experimental outcomes (research articles) at the interface between mechanosensory responses and tissue maintenance in skeletal muscle.
Dr. Mahtab Nourbakhsh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- skeletal muscle tissue regeneration
- mechanotransduction
- skeletal muscle spindles
- tissue-resident macrophages
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