Andreas Marg, Helena Escobar, Nikos Karaiskos, Stefanie A Grunwald, Eric Metzler, Janine Kieshauer, Sascha Sauer, Diana Pasemann, Edoardo Malfatti, Dominique Mompoint, Susanna Quijano-Roy, Anastasiya Boltengagen, Joanna Schneider, Markus Schülke, Séverine Kunz, Robert Carlier, Carmen Birchmeier, Helge Amthor, Andreas Spuler, Christine Kocks, Nikolaus Rajewsky, Simone Spuler
Skeletal muscle stem cells, called satellite cells and defined by the transcription factor PAX7, are responsible for postnatal muscle growth, homeostasis and regeneration. Attempts to utilize the regenerative potential of muscle stem cells for therapeutic purposes so far failed. We previously established the existence of human PAX7-positive cell colonies with high regenerative potential. We now identified PAX7-negative human muscle-derived cell colonies also positive for the myogenic markers desmin and MYF5...
December 18, 2019: Nature Communications