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Can muscle removed by shrapnel from an ied ever re-grow?
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No: The number of muscle cells have is typically a fixed number--we don't regenerate muscle. Stem cell therapy might be changing that, though, in terms of cardiac muscle, and early studies are promising. Muscle cells do get bigger though, and can compensate for lost muscle.
Answered 12/23/2014
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