Oriented cell divisions and muscle satellite cell heterogeneity.
作者:
Cossu(Giulio),Tajbakhsh(Shahragim)
状态:
发布时间2007-06-01
, 更新时间 2007-06-01
期刊:
Cell
摘要:
Satellite cells are crucial for maintaining muscle homeostasis and for regeneration following injury. In this issue, Kuang et al. (2007) reveal that muscle satellite cells are a heterogeneous mixture of stem cells and committed myogenic progenitors. They show that asymmetric division of stem cells in the satellite cell niche is a mechanism for generating these two populations.