DMD and Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Transplantation of skeletal muscle came into play in the late 1980s by the work of Partridge’s group (Partridge et al., 1989) who demonstrated that injecting myoblasts into the hind limb of the mdx mouse model for DMD (Duchenne muscular dystrophy) resulted in a significant reconstitution of dystrophin positive muscle fibers.