A-C We overexpressed GFP-tagged NICD in immortalized primary myoblasts to rescue the features displayed by immortalized D233E myoblasts. (B) We analyzed the proliferation at 1, 3 and 5 days, and proliferation rate in patient-LV-NICD-GFP reached the level observed in control-LV-GFP, which were higher than in patient-LV-GFP. (C) However, the percentage of PAX7+cells in patient-LV-NICD-GFP showed the same reduced value as in patient-LV-GFP, which were significantly lower than in control-LV-GFP. The majority of control myoblasts were proliferating cells (PAX7+ MyoD+, arrows), with no quiescent cells and few differentiating cells detected. Data were collected from n = 2 independent assays (5-8 images per condition). Mean ± SEM is shown; One-way Anova with Tukey multiple comparisions test (B) and Kruskal-Wallis with Dunn´s multiple comparisons test (C); Scale bar, 50 µm). 