Muscle Satellite Cell Heterogeneity and Self-Renewal

Adult skeletal muscle possesses extraordinary regeneration capacities. After muscle injury or exercise, large numbers of newly formed muscle fibers are generated within a week as a result of expansion and differentiation of a self-renewing pool of muscle stem cells termed muscle satellite cells. Nor...

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Main Authors: Norio eMotohashi, Atsushi eAsakura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcell.2014.00001/full