Title: Regulation
of skeletal muscle stem cell behaviour by Pax3 and Pax7 Authors: Lagha M, Sato T, Bajard L, Daubas P, Esner M, Montarras D, Relaix F, Buckingham M Date: 2008 Publication Details: Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology 2008.
Not exact matches
One
of the molecular mysteries hindering development
of regenerative therapy for
muscles is uncovering the precise genetic and molecular processes that cause
skeletal muscle stem cells (called myoblasts) to fuse and form the striated
muscle fibers that allow movement.
Researchers at the University
of Louisville have discovered a mechanism involved in
skeletal muscle repair that may enable clinicians to boost the effectiveness
of adult
stem cell therapies for diseases such as muscular dystrophy.
Researchers have isolated
stem cells from only some
of the body's organs and tissues, including the blood, brain,
skeletal muscle, heart
muscle and most recently from skin.
The hamburger was grown in Post's lab using bovine
skeletal muscle stem cells, collected from a piece
of fresh beef.
«This is a clean demonstration that the physiological and metabolic benefits
of exercise radiate to
skeletal muscle satellite
cells, the adult
stem cells responsible for repair after injury, even in senescent animals,» said Thoru Pederson, Ph..
As
stem cells continue their gradual transition from the lab to the clinic, a research group at the University
of Wisconsin — Madison has discovered a new way to make large concentrations
of skeletal muscle cells and
muscle progenitors from human
stem cells.
We investigated the role
of Srf in two cellular compartments
of mouse
skeletal muscle (myofibers and adult
muscle stem cells) upon different perturbation
of muscle homeostasis (hypertrophy, atrophy, regeneration).
These endogenous
muscle stem cells promote regeneration
of skeletal muscles after injury and that participate in adaptation to exercise.
Characterized other proteins and pathways that modulate proliferation and differentiation
of myogenic
stem cells, hypertrophic growth
of the heart, mitochondrial biogenesis and fiber type — specific gene expression in
skeletal muscles.
Abstract We discovered that a subset
of satellite
cells in
skeletal muscle are self - renewing
stem cells that give rise to myogenic progenitors through asymmetric apical - basal
cell divisions.
Using mouse
skeletal muscle stem cells as a model, we show that accumulating transcripts specifying the myogenic program are not translated in quiescent satellite
cells, but are repressed by the action
of microRNAs and RNA binding proteins.
p38 MAPK signaling underlies a
cell - autonomous loss
of stem cell self - renewal in
skeletal muscle of aged mice.
Research is specially centered on
stem cells of skeletal muscle (i.e., satellite
cells).
Title: A Subpopulation
of Adult
Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells Retains All Template DNA Strands after
Cell Division Authors: Rocheteau P, Gayraud - Morel B, Siegl - Cachedenier I, Blasco MA, Tajbakhsh S Date: January 2012 Publication Details:
Cell.
Currently, back at the University
of warsaw, she heads the Department
of Cytology which investigates the potential
of various
stem cells to differentiate into myoblasts and to participate in the regeneration
of skeletal muscle.
The decline in
skeletal muscle function associated with human ageing can be ascribed to an increasing number
of mutations in satellite
cells — the resident
stem cells of skeletal muscle.
The authors highlight the successful application
of both induced pluripotent
stem cells and embryonic
stem cells for this first example
of the in vitro formation
of functional and mature
skeletal muscle tissue, thereby also establishing the potential for patient - specificity in disease modeling, drug development, and possible
muscle repair.
With their guidance, Williams transformed
stem cells into
skeletal muscle cells to help create a model
of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Review
of «Engineering human pluripotent
stem cells into a functional
skeletal muscle tissue» from Nature Communications by Stuart P. Atkinson
Satellite
cells (SCs) are a heterogeneous population
of stem and progenitor
cells that have been demonstrated to play a pivotal role in
skeletal muscle (SkM) regeneration.
The recent recognition that de novo lipogenesis might have relevance for lipid homeostasis in
skeletal muscle stems from the realization that Sterol regulatory element binding protein - 1c (SREBP - 1c), a member
of the family
of transcription factors that regulate the expression
of genes involved in lipid storage in liver and adipose tissue, is also present in
skeletal muscle at a level close to that observed in the liver, 41,42... [M] ost fascinating are the very recent demonstrations that glucose alone (in the absence
of insulin) can stimulate de novo lipogenesis in
skeletal muscle cells....