Skeletal muscle stem cells.
In this review we shall discuss recent publications on the heterogeneity of muscle stem cells, signaling pathways that affect their behaviour and regulatory mechanisms that underlie their myogenic fate, with reference to insights provided by work on skeletal muscle formation in the embryo as well as the adult, with the mouse as a model of reference.
Buckingham
Margaret
M
Pasteur Institute, CNRS URA 2578, 28 rue du Dr Roux, 75015 Paris, France. margab@pasteur.fr
Montarras
Didier
D
D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000235:genetics; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000196:embryology* / Q000502:physiology; D032448:Myoblasts, Skeletal / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D032496:Satellite Cells, Skeletal Muscle / Q000502:physiology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000235:genetics