Sentences with phrase «early skeletal muscle cells»

Rhabdomyosarcoma, the most common soft tissue cancer in children, was long thought to originate exclusively in early skeletal muscle cells.

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The gene, known as gata5, acts in embryonic cells, which are primordial, unspecialized cells that form in the earliest stage of embryonic development and are genetically programmed to evolve into one of many specialized cell types, such as skeletal muscle cells, nerve cells, blood cells, skin cells, and liver cells.

MyoD is normally only expressed in skeletal muscle, and it was later found to be a transcription factor involved in the differentiation of muscle cells and also a very early marker of muscle cell fate commitment.

In these early phases, skeletal muscle cells and white fat cells have a shared precursor cell.