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The self-renewal versus depletion trade-off
Because activation and self-renewal are competing fates,[3] an intervention that maximizes short-term repair could, in principle, erode the long-term stem-cell reserve. Very few studies are long enough to detect this, so the long-run safety of chronically push
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- Because activation and self-renewal are competing fates,[3] an intervention that maximizes short-term repair could, in principle, erode the long-term stem-cell reserve. Very few studies are long enough to detect this, so the long-run safety of chronically pushing satellite-cell activation is genuinely unknown.