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Pax7 directs postnatal renewal and propagation of myogenic satellite cells but not their specification.
The EMBO journal - 18 Aug 2004
Oustanina Svetlana, Hause Gerd, Braun Thomas
Abstract excerpt
The paired-box transcription factor Pax7 has been claimed to specify the muscle stem cell lineage since inactivation of Pax7 led to a failure to detect muscle satellite cells. Here we show that muscles of juvenile Pax7(-/-) mice at P11 contain a reduced but substantial number of satellite cells. Neither juvenile nor adult Pax7(-/-) mice displayed a significant reduction in the number and size of myotubes,...
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