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The adult muscle stem cell comes of age

Nature Medicine volume 11, pages 829–831 (2005)Cite this article

Adult stem cells can self-renew and can give rise to committed progenitors—but definitive evidence of cells with both properties is lacking in most tissues. A cell in skeletal muscle, the satellite cell, now meets these criteria.

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Figure 1: Satellite cell self-renewal.

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Figure 2: The power of one.

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