Task: Answer Verification
Input (English): Question: Does preconditioning of skeletal myoblast-based engineered tissue constructs enable functional coupling to myocardium in vivo?
Answer: Although untreated skeletal myoblasts cannot couple to cardiomyocytes, we confirm that mechanical preconditioning enables transplanted skeletal myoblasts to functionally interact with cardiomyocytes in vivo and, thus, reinvigorate the concept of skeletal myoblast-based cardiac cell therapy.
Output (English): yes