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However, traditional interpretive pathways have largely remained at the level of descriptive deduction concerning anatomy, visceral manifestations, and biomechanics, failing to elucidate the cellular executors and molecular mechanisms underpinning the sinew-bone association. In this theoretical article, we propose a hypothesis that intercellular communication between skeletal muscle satellite cells (MuSCs) and bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) may provide a cellular-molecular basis for this classical theory. This article systematically reviews the molecular identity of MuSCs and BMSCs, the molecular basis of stem cell chemotaxis centered on the SDF-1\/CXCR4 axis, and the existing evidence for the bidirectional chemotaxis of these two stem cell types. 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