Reenthronement of the muscle satellite cell.
In this issue of Cell (Sherwood et al., 2004), a quantitative survey confirms that repair of skeletal muscle is overwhelmingly attributable to the endogenous satellite cell population but that experience of a regenerating muscle environment confers some myogenic qualities onto a tiny population of bone marrow-derived cells.
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Muscle Cell Biology Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom.
D000818:Animals; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D019070:Cell Lineage; D051379:Mice; D012038:Regeneration; D032496:Satellite Cells, Skeletal Muscle / Q000502:physiology*