Building muscle: molecular regulation of myogenesis

CF Bentzinger, YX Wang… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2012 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The genesis of skeletal muscle during embryonic development and postnatal life serves as a
paradigm for stem and progenitor cell maintenance, lineage specification, and terminal …

Biomaterials based strategies for skeletal muscle tissue engineering: existing technologies and future trends

TH Qazi, DJ Mooney, M Pumberger, S Geissler… - Biomaterials, 2015 - Elsevier
Skeletal muscles have a robust capacity to regenerate, but under compromised conditions,
such as severe trauma, the loss of muscle functionality is inevitable. Research carried out in …

[HTML][HTML] Human ES-and iPS-derived myogenic progenitors restore DYSTROPHIN and improve contractility upon transplantation in dystrophic mice

R Darabi, RW Arpke, S Irion, JT Dimos, M Grskovic… - Cell stem cell, 2012 - cell.com
A major obstacle in the application of cell-based therapies for the treatment of
neuromuscular disorders is obtaining the appropriate number of stem/progenitor cells to …

Highly porous microcarriers for minimally invasive in situ skeletal muscle cell delivery

RK Kankala, J Zhao, CG Liu, XJ Song, DY Yang, K Zhu… - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Microscale cell carriers have recently garnered enormous interest in repairing tissue defects
by avoiding substantial open surgeries using implants for tissue regeneration. In this study …

Transplantation of genetically corrected human iPSC-derived progenitors in mice with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy

FS Tedesco, MFM Gerli, L Perani, S Benedetti… - Science translational …, 2012 - science.org
Mesoangioblasts are stem/progenitor cells derived from a subset of pericytes found in
muscle that express alkaline phosphatase. They have been shown to ameliorate the …

Derivation and expansion of PAX7-positive muscle progenitors from human and mouse embryonic stem cells

M Shelton, J Metz, J Liu, RL Carpenedo, SP Demers… - Stem cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
Cell therapies treating pathological muscle atrophy or damage requires an adequate
quantity of muscle progenitor cells (MPCs) not currently attainable from adult donors. Here …

Molecular and cellular regulation of skeletal myogenesis

G Comai, S Tajbakhsh - Current topics in developmental biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Since the seminal discovery of the cell-fate regulator Myod, studies in skeletal myogenesis
have inspired the search for cell-fate regulators of similar potential in other tissues and …

Current strategies for the regeneration of skeletal muscle tissue

E Alarcin, A Bal-Öztürk, H Avci, H Ghorbanpoor… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Traumatic injuries, tumor resections, and degenerative diseases can damage skeletal
muscle and lead to functional impairment and severe disability. Skeletal muscle …

Inducible cassette exchange: a rapid and efficient system enabling conditional gene expression in embryonic stem and primary cells

M Iacovino, D Bosnakovski, H Fey, D Rux, G Bajwa… - Stem …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Genetic modification is critically enabling for studies addressing specification and
maintenance of cell fate; however, methods for engineering modifications are inefficient. We …

Master regulators of skeletal muscle lineage development and pluripotent stem cells differentiation

J Esteves de Lima, F Relaix - Cell Regeneration, 2021 - Springer
In vertebrates, the skeletal muscles of the body and their associated stem cells originate
from muscle progenitor cells, during development. The specification of the muscles of the …