Cellular and Molecular Regulation of Muscle Regeneration

Regulation of skeletal muscle mass in mice by a new TGF-p superfamily member

1997 • 3,802 citations

SATELLITE CELL OF SKELETAL MUSCLE FIBERS

1961 • 3,472 citations

Isolation and functional properties of murine hematopoietic stem cells that are replicating in vivo.

1996 • 2,901 citations

Muscle Regeneration by Bone Marrow-Derived Myogenic Progenitors

1998 • 2,762 citations

Molecular cloning and expression of human hepatocyte growth factor

1989 • 2,191 citations

Pax7 Is Required for the Specification of Myogenic Satellite Cells

2000 • 2,178 citations

Serial passaging and differentiation of myogenic cells isolated from dystrophic mouse muscle

1977 • 2,070 citations

Double muscling in cattle due to mutations in the myostatin gene

1997 • 1,970 citations

Dystrophin expression in the mdx mouse restored by stem cell transplantation

1999 • 1,817 citations

The Atlas of Mouse Development

1992 • 1,782 citations

MyoD or Myf-5 is required for the formation of skeletal muscle

1993 • 1,663 citations

Myogenic satellite cells: physiology to molecular biology

2001 • 1,624 citations

Regulation of myostatin activity and muscle growth

2001 • 1,536 citations

A deletion in the bovine myostatin gene causes the double–muscled phenotype in cattle

1997 • 1,487 citations

Bone morphogenetic protein-2 converts the differentiation pathway of C2C12 myoblasts into the osteoblast lineage [published erratum appears in J Cell Biol 1995 Feb;128(4):following 713]

1994 • 1,442 citations

Muscle deficiency and neonatal death in mice with a targeted mutation in the myogenin gene

1993 • 1,314 citations

Interleukin-6-deficient mice develop mature-onset obesity

2002 • 1,197 citations

The Molecular Basis of Muscular Dystrophy in the mdx Mouse: a Point Mutation

1989 • 1,171 citations

Mutations in myostatin (GDF8) in Double-Muscled Belgian Blue and Piedmontese Cattle

1997 • 1,159 citations

Function and Genetics of Dystrophin and Dystrophin-Related Proteins in Muscle

2002 • 1,158 citations

Localized Igf-1 transgene expression sustains hypertrophy and regeneration in senescent skeletal muscle

2001 • 1,102 citations

Growth Hormone and the Insulin-Like Growth Factor System in Myogenesis*

1996 • 1,078 citations

Physiology of Nitric Oxide in Skeletal Muscle

2001 • 1,053 citations

Myostatin, a Negative Regulator of Muscle Growth, Functions by Inhibiting Myoblast Proliferation

2000 • 972 citations

Single-Cell Analysis of Regulatory Gene Expression in Quiescent and Activated Mouse Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells

1997 • 918 citations

Myogenin gene disruption results in perinatal lethality because of severe muscle defect

1993 • 912 citations

Identifying differences in mRNA expression by representational difference analysis of cDNA

1994 • 904 citations

Pax-3, a novel murine DNA binding protein expressed during early neurogenesis.

1991 • 897 citations

Expression of Cd34 and Myf5 Defines the Majority of Quiescent Adult Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells

2000 • 878 citations

Identification of a novel population of muscle stem cells in mice

2002 • 844 citations

The Regulation of Notch Signaling Controls Satellite Cell Activation and Cell Fate Determination in Postnatal Myogenesis

2002 • 843 citations

Plasticity of the Differentiated State

1985 • 839 citations

Redefining the Genetic Hierarchies Controlling Skeletal Myogenesis: Pax-3 and Myf-5 Act Upstream of MyoD

1997 • 815 citations

Biological Progression from Adult Bone Marrow to Mononucleate Muscle Stem Cell to Multinucleate Muscle Fiber in Response to Injury

2002 • 800 citations

Muscle satellite cells are multipotential stem cells that exhibit myogenic, osteogenic, and adipogenic differentiation

2001 • 794 citations

Mechanism of activation and function of protein kinase B

1998 • 753 citations

Asymmetric distribution of numb protein during division of the sensory organ precursor cell confers distinct fates to daughter cells

1994 • 749 citations

Structure and physiological function of calpains

1997 • 710 citations

MyoD is required for myogenic stem cell function in adult skeletal muscle.

1996 • 705 citations

Viral mediated expression of insulin-like growth factor I blocks the aging-related loss of skeletal muscle function

1998 • 700 citations

Myogenic specification of side population cells in skeletal muscle

2002 • 675 citations

HGF/SF Is Present in Normal Adult Skeletal Muscle and Is Capable of Activating Satellite Cells

1998 • 674 citations

IGF-1 induces skeletal myocyte hypertrophy through calcineurin in association with GATA-2 and NF-ATc1

1999 • 651 citations

Myogenic Vector Expression of Insulin-like Growth Factor I Stimulates Muscle Cell Differentiation and Myofiber Hypertrophy in Transgenic Mice

1995 • 634 citations

Clonal Isolation of Muscle-Derived Cells Capable of Enhancing Muscle Regeneration and Bone Healing

2000 • 628 citations

A New Look at the Origin, Function, and “Stem-Cell” Status of Muscle Satellite Cells

2000 • 598 citations

Purification and characterization of a growth factor from rat platelets for mature parenchymal hepatocytes in primary cultures.

1986 • 588 citations

The many faces of hepatocyte growth factor: from hepatopoiesis to hematopoiesis.

1995 • 578 citations

Mechanisms of Exercise-Induced Muscle Fibre Injury

1991 • 576 citations

Regulation of skeletal muscle satellite cell proliferation and differentiation by transforming growth factor‐beta, insulin‐like growth factor I, and fibroblast growth factor

1989 • 541 citations

Caspase 3 activity is required for skeletal muscle differentiation

2002 • 541 citations

Human reserve pluripotent mesenchymal stem cells are present in the connective tissues of skeletal muscle and dermis derived from fetal, adult, and geriatric donors

2001 • 538 citations

Inflammatory cell response to acute muscle injury

1995 • 528 citations

The meso-angioblast: a multipotent, self-renewing cell that originates from the dorsal aorta and differentiates into most mesodermal tissues

2002 • 507 citations

Dynamics of Myoblast Transplantation Reveal a Discrete Minority of Precursors with Stem Cell–like Properties as the Myogenic Source

1999 • 501 citations

Asymmetric segregation of Numb and Prospero during cell division

1995 • 489 citations

Skeletal myogenic potential of human and mouse neural stem cells

2000 • 485 citations

Animal Models for Muscular Dystrophy Show Different Patterns of Sarcolemmal Disruption

1997 • 482 citations

The Muscle Satellite Cell: A Review

1984 • 477 citations

Getting your Pax straight: Pax proteins in development and disease

2002 • 476 citations

Culturing satellite cells from living single muscle fiber explants

1995 • 466 citations

Muscle-derived hematopoietic stem cells are hematopoietic in origin

2002 • 461 citations

Initial events in exercise-induced muscular injury

1990 • 458 citations

Recruitment of bone-marrow-derived cells by skeletal and cardiac muscle in adult dystrophic mdx mice

1999 • 453 citations

Skeletal muscle hypertrophy is mediated by a Ca2+-dependent calcineurin signalling pathway

1999 • 450 citations

A Role for Nitric Oxide in Muscle Repair: Nitric Oxide–mediated Activation of Muscle Satellite Cells

2000 • 444 citations

Muscle-specific expression of insulin-like growth factor I counters muscle decline in mdx mice

2002 • 444 citations

Dedifferentiation of Mammalian Myotubes Induced by msx1

2000 • 442 citations

Temporal expression of regulatory and structural muscle proteins during myogenesis of satellite cells on isolated adult rat fibers

1994 • 442 citations

Nerve sprouting in innervated adult skeletal muscle induced by exposure to elevated levels of insulin-like growth factors.

1990 • 441 citations

Cadherins

1992 • 437 citations

In vivo satellite cell activation via Myf5 and MyoD in regenerating mouse skeletal muscle

1999 • 432 citations

Skeletal Myogenic Progenitors Originating from Embryonic Dorsal Aorta Coexpress Endothelial and Myogenic Markers and Contribute to Postnatal Muscle Growth and Regeneration

1999 • 419 citations

Cell heterogeneity upon myogenic differentiation: down-regulation of MyoD and Myf-5 generates ‘reserve cells’

1998 • 419 citations

Hepatocyte growth factor activates quiescent skeletal muscle satellite cells in vitro

1995 • 418 citations

Muscle transplantation between young and old rats: age of host determines recovery

1989 • 413 citations

Acute phase response in exercise. III. Neutrophil and IL-1 beta accumulation in skeletal muscle

1993 • 413 citations

Ectopic Pax-3 Activates MyoD and Myf-5 Expression in Embryonic Mesoderm and Neural Tissue

1997 • 410 citations

Proliferation of muscle satellite cells on intact myofibers in culture

1986 • 401 citations

Localized infusion of IGF-I results in skeletal muscle hypertrophy in rats

1998 • 392 citations

Myostatin inhibits cell proliferation and protein synthesis in C₂C₁₂ muscle cells

2001 • 392 citations

Plasticity and reprogramming of differentiated cells in amphibian regeneration

2002 • 390 citations

The murine paired box gene, Pax7, is expressed specifically during the development of the nervous and muscular system

1990 • 383 citations

mdx mice show progressive weakness and muscle deterioration with age

1995 • 383 citations

Satellite Cell Proliferative Compartments in Growing Skeletal Muscles

1996 • 382 citations

Loss of myostatin attenuates severity of muscular dystrophy in mdx mice

2002 • 375 citations

Syndecan-3 and Syndecan-4 Specifically Mark Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells and Are Implicated in Satellite Cell Maintenance and Muscle Regeneration

2001 • 373 citations

Skeletal muscle myostatin mRNA expression is fiber-type specific and increases during hindlimb unloading

1999 • 363 citations

Expression pattern of M‐cadherin in normal, denervated, and regenerating mouse muscles

1994 • 359 citations

Visualization of Dystrophic Muscle Fibers in Mdx Mouse by Vital Staining with Evans Blue: Evidence of Apoptosis in Dystrophin-Deficient Muscle

1995 • 355 citations

Desmin Is Essential for the Tensile Strength and Integrity of Myofibrils but Not for Myogenic Commitment, Differentiation, and Fusion of Skeletal Muscle

1997 • 354 citations

Injury to Skeletal Muscle Fibers During Contractions: Conditions of Occurrence and Prevention

1993 • 350 citations

Reduced Differentiation Potential of Primary MyoD−/− Myogenic Cells Derived from Adult Skeletal Muscle

1999 • 344 citations

THE mdx MOUSE SKELETAL MUSCLE MYOPATHY: I. A HISTOLOGICAL, MORPHOMETRIC AND BIOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION

1988 • 343 citations

Skeletal muscle satellite cells: Changes in proliferation potential as a function of age

1982 • 333 citations

Satellite cells are mitotically quiescent in mature mouse muscle: An EM and radioautographic study

1978 • 326 citations

Skeletal muscle pathology in X chromosome-linked muscular dystrophy (mdx) mouse

1986 • 322 citations

The fate of individual myoblasts after transplantation into muscles of DMD patients

1997 • 321 citations

Age‐related differences in absolute numbers of skeletal muscle satellite cells

1983 • 318 citations

A role for FGF-6 in skeletal muscle regeneration

1997 • 316 citations

Myostatin is an inhibitor of myogenic differentiation

2002 • 315 citations

Inactivation of the myogenic bHLH gene MRF4 results in up-regulation of myogenin and rib anomalies.

1995 • 308 citations

Response of satellite cells to focal skeletal muscle injury

1985 • 307 citations

Identification of skeletal muscle precursor cells in vivo by use of MyoD1 and myogenin probes

1992 • 302 citations

Dysgenesis of cephalic neural crest derivatives in Pax7−/− mutant mice

1996 • 297 citations

Replicative Potential and Telomere Length in Human Skeletal Muscle: Implications for Satellite Cell-Mediated Gene Therapy

1997 • 297 citations

Conserved and divergent roles for members of the Snail family of transcription factors in the chick and mouse embryo

1998 • 295 citations

Disruption of Dag1 in Differentiated Skeletal Muscle Reveals a Role for Dystroglycan in Muscle Regeneration

2002 • 294 citations

Accelerated age-related decline in replicative life-span of Duchenne muscular dystrophy myoblasts: Implications for cell and gene therapy

1990 • 292 citations

Proliferation precedes differentiation in IGF-I-stimulated myogenesis.

1996 • 291 citations

Pathology of Skeletal Muscle.

1985 • 289 citations

MyoD−/− Satellite Cells in Single-Fiber Culture Are Differentiation Defective and MRF4 Deficient

2000 • 288 citations

Contribution of satellite cells to IGF‐I induced hypertrophy of skeletal muscle

1999 • 287 citations

Kinetics of Myoblast Proliferation Show That Resident Satellite Cells Are Competent to Fully Regenerate Skeletal Muscle Fibers

2002 • 286 citations

Muscular dystrophy in the mdx mouse: Histopathology of the soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscles

1987 • 282 citations

The Role of Macrophages in Skeletal Muscle Regeneration with Particular Reference to Chemotaxis

1993 • 279 citations

Temporal expression of myogenic regulatory genes during activation, proliferation, and differentiation of rat skeletal muscle satellite cells

1994 • 278 citations

Characterization of murine CD34, a marker for hematopoietic progenitor and stem cells

1994 • 274 citations

Release of Hepatocyte Growth Factor from Mechanically Stretched Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells and Role of pH and Nitric Oxide

2002 • 272 citations

A satellite cell mitogen from crushed adult muscle

1986 • 272 citations

IGF-I restores satellite cell proliferative potential in immobilized old skeletal muscle

2000 • 271 citations

Evans Blue Dye as an in vivo marker of myofibre damage: optimising parameters for detecting initial myofibre membrane permeability

2002 • 269 citations

Intraarterial Injection of Muscle-Derived Cd34+Sca-1+ Stem Cells Restores Dystrophin in mdx Mice

2001 • 266 citations

The Transition from Proliferation to Differentiation Is Delayed in Satellite Cells from Mice Lacking MyoD

1999 • 265 citations

Exercise-induced satellite cell activation in growing and mature skeletal muscle

1987 • 259 citations

Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Stimulates Terminal Myogenic Differentiation by Induction of Myogenin Gene Expression

1991 • 258 citations

Hepatocyte growth factor affects satellite cell activation and differentiation in regenerating skeletal muscle

2000 • 256 citations

Generation of different fates from multipotent muscle stem cells

2002 • 252 citations

Reversal of muscle differentiation during urodele limb regeneration.

1993 • 248 citations

Expression of myosin isoforms during notexin-induced regeneration of rat soleus muscles

1990 • 237 citations

Dynamics of nuclei of muscle fibers and connective tissue cells in normal and denervated rat muscles

2000 • 236 citations

Skeletal muscle satellite cell proliferation in response to members of the fibroblast growth factor family and hepatocyte growth factor

1999 • 236 citations

Exercise-induced muscle injury: a calpain hypothesis.

1998 • 233 citations

Insulin-like Growth Factor-I Extends in VitroReplicative Life Span of Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells by Enhancing G1/S Cell Cycle Progression via the Activation of Phosphatidylinositol 3′-Kinase/Akt Signaling Pathway

2000 • 232 citations

The Role of Stem Cells in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle Repair

2002 • 231 citations

Digit tip regeneration correlates with regions ofMsx1 (Hox 7)expression in fetal and newborn mice

1995 • 229 citations

Thiazolidinediones and Fatty Acids Convert Myogenic Cells into Adipose-like Cells

1995 • 229 citations

Modulation of myostatin expression during modified muscle use

2000 • 228 citations

Dominant negative myostatin produces hypertrophy without hyperplasia in muscle

2000 • 228 citations

Chemotaxis of skeletal muscle satellite cells

1997 • 226 citations

Mechanical Stretch Induces Activation of Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells in Vitro

2001 • 225 citations

Satellite cell proliferation and the expression of myogenin and desmin in regenerating skeletal muscle: evidence for two different populations of satellite cells.

1995 • 224 citations

The number of nuclei in adult rat muscles with special reference to satellite cells

1977 • 221 citations

Calcium Influx through Calcium Leak Channels Is Responsible for the Elevated Levels of Calcium-dependent Proteolysis in Dystrophic Myotubes

2000 • 220 citations

Disruption of the mouse MRF4 gene identifies multiple waves of myogenesis in the myotome

1995 • 220 citations

Mammalian myotube dedifferentiation induced by newt regeneration extract

2001 • 218 citations

Myogenic cell formation in regenerating rat skeletal muscle injured by mincing II. An autoradiographic study

1977 • 216 citations

Macrophages enhance muscle satellite cell proliferation and delay their differentiation

1999 • 208 citations

Insulin and IGF-I induce pronounced hypertrophy of skeletal myofibers in tissue culture

1991 • 204 citations

Pathological responses of rat skeletal muscle to a single subcutaneous injection of a toxin isolated from the venom of the Australian tiger snake, Notechis scutatus scutatus

1975 • 203 citations

Fibroblast Growth Factor Promotes Recruitment of Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells in Young and Old Rats

1999 • 201 citations

Developmental Fate of Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells

1979 • 201 citations

Myoseverin, a microtubule-binding molecule with novel cellular effects

2000 • 200 citations

Gene Expression Patterns of the Fibroblast Growth Factors and Their Receptors During Myogenesis of Rat Satellite Cells

2000 • 199 citations

Long-term persistence of donor nuclei in a Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient receiving bone marrow transplantation

2002 • 197 citations

Hepatocyte growth factor plays a dual role in regulating skeletal muscle satellite cell proliferation and differentiation

1998 • 194 citations

Shorter telomeres in dystrophic muscle consistent with extensive regeneration in young children

2000 • 192 citations

Blood borne macrophages are essential for the triggering of muscle regeneration following muscle transplant

1999 • 191 citations

Syndecan-Regulated Receptor Signaling

2000 • 191 citations

Inhibition of skeletal muscle satellite cell differentiation by transforming growth factor‐beta

1987 • 188 citations

Insulin-Like Growth Factor-Mediated Muscle Cell Survival: Central Roles for Akt and Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21

2000 • 188 citations

Asymmetric segregation of Numb: a mechanism for neural specification from Drosophila to mammals

2002 • 186 citations

In Vivo Imaging Indicates Muscle Fiber Dedifferentiation Is a Major Contributor to the Regenerating Tail Blastema

2001 • 185 citations

HGF is an autocrine growth factor for skeletal muscle satellite cells in vitro

2000 • 183 citations

A web-accessible complete transcriptome of normal human and DMD muscle

2002 • 179 citations

Regeneration after cardiotoxin injury of innervated and denervated slow and fast muscles of mammals

1988 • 178 citations

A Natural Hepatocyte Growth Factor/Scatter Factor Autocrine Loop in Myoblast Cells and the Effect of the Constitutive Met Kinase Activation on Myogenic Differentiation

1997 • 176 citations

Multiple signaling pathways mediate LIF-induced skeletal muscle satellite cell proliferation

2002 • 174 citations

Myonuclear apoptosis in dystrophic mdx muscle occurs by perforin-mediated cytotoxicity.

1997 • 172 citations

MyoD and myogenin are coexpressed in regenerating skeletal muscle of the mouse

1992 • 172 citations

Rapid degeneration and regeneration of a whole skeletal muscle following treatment with bupivacaine (Marcain)

1974 • 171 citations

The Expression of Intermediate Filament protein Nestin as Related to Vimentin and Desmin in Regenerating Skeletal Muscle

2001 • 171 citations

Delta 1-activated Notch inhibits muscle differentiation without affecting Myf5 and Pax3 expression in chick limb myogenesis

2000 • 169 citations

Regenerating and denervated human muscle fibers and satellite cells express neural cell adhesion molecule recognized by monoclonal antibodies to natural killer cells

1992 • 169 citations

Identification of self-renewing myoblasts in the progeny of single human muscle satellite cells

1996 • 168 citations

Myogenic stem cell function is impaired in mice lacking the forkhead /winged helix protein MNF

2000 • 165 citations

Healing of experimental muscle strains and the effects of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory medication

1986 • 165 citations

An autoradiographic study of satellite cell differentiation into regenerating myotubes following transplantation of muscles in young rats

1978 • 165 citations

Induction of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Messenger Ribonucleic Acid during Regeneration of Rat Skeletal Muscle*

1989 • 164 citations

Interferon Regulatory Factor-2 Is a Transcriptional Activator in Muscle Where It Regulates Expression of Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1

1998 • 163 citations

FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE PATHOLOGICAL RESPONSES OF RAT SKELETAL MUSCLE TO TOXINS ISOLATED FROM THE VENOM OF THE AUSTRALIAN TIGER SNAKE, NOTECHIS SCUTATUS SCUTATUS

1978 • 163 citations

Heterogeneity among muscle precursor cells in adult skeletal muscles with differing regenerative capacities

1998 • 162 citations

A deletion in the myostatin gene causes the compact ( Cmpt ) hypermuscular mutation in mice

1998 • 158 citations

Increased protein synthesis after acute IGF-I or insulin infusion is localized to muscle in mice

1998 • 157 citations

The distribution of satellite cells and their relationship to specific fiber types in soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscles

1982 • 156 citations

Involvement of M-cadherin in terminal differentiation of skeletal muscle cells

1995 • 154 citations

Muscle fibers of mdx mice are more vulnerable to exercise than those of normal mice

1997 • 152 citations

Serum creatine-kinase (CK) and pyruvate-kinase (PK) activities in Duchenne (DMD) as compared with Becker (BMD) muscular dystrophy

1991 • 150 citations

Myostatin Regulates Cell Survival during C2C12 Myogenesis

2001 • 150 citations

Analysis of inflammatory cells and complement C3 in bupivacaine‐induced myonecrosis

1991 • 149 citations

Myogenin's Functions Do Not Overlap with Those of MyoD or Myf-5 during Mouse Embryogenesis

1995 • 147 citations

Muscle regeneration following injury can be modified in vivo by immune neutralization of basic fibroblast growth factor, transforming growth factor β1 or insulin-like growth factor I

1995 • 147 citations

Plasticity of Retrovirus-Labelled Myotubes in the Newt Limb Regeneration Blastema

2000 • 146 citations

Leukemia inhibitory factor and interleukin-6 are produced by diseased and regenerating skeletal muscle

1996 • 145 citations

inscuteable and numb mediate asymmetric muscle progenitor cell divisions during Drosophila myogenesis

1998 • 145 citations

Regeneration in free grafts of normal and denervated muscles in the rat: Morphology and histochemistry

1975 • 144 citations

Persistent Expression of MNF Identifies Myogenic Stem Cells in Postnatal Muscles

1997 • 144 citations

Long-term persistence of donor nuclei in a Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient receiving bone marrow transplantation

2002 • 142 citations

MSX1 inhibits MyoD expression in fibroblast × 10T½ cell hybrids

1995 • 142 citations

X‐Irradiation improves mdx mouse muscle as a model of myofiber loss in DMD

1991 • 141 citations

Lymphocyte antigen Leu-19 as a molecular marker of regeneration in human skeletal muscle.

1989 • 139 citations

Induction of lef1 during zebrafish fin regeneration

2000 • 139 citations

Chapter 9 Cell Heterogeneity in The Myogenic Lineage

1987 • 139 citations

Muscle damage and repair in voluntarily running mice: strain and muscle differences

1987 • 138 citations

The role of leukemia inhibitory factor in skeletal muscle regeneration

1997 • 138 citations

Origin of satellite cells in avian skeletal muscles.

1983 • 138 citations

Fibroblast growth factor, epidermal growth factor, insulin‐like growth factors, and platelet‐derived growth factor‐BB stimulate proliferation of clonally derived porcine myogenic satellite cells

1993 • 135 citations

Muscle regeneration: molecular aspects and therapeutic implications

1999 • 135 citations

Msx1 antagonizes the myogenic activity of Pax3 in migrating limb muscle precursors

1999 • 134 citations

Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) infusion stimulates skeletal muscle regeneration after injury: Injured muscle expresses lif mRNA

1994 • 134 citations

Macrophage-Derived Growth Factors

1992 • 131 citations

Expression of the Fgf6 gene is restricted to developing skeletal muscle in the mouse embryo

1993 • 130 citations

Thrombin regulates S-phase re-entry by cultured newt myotubes

1999 • 130 citations

The cellular events of injured muscle regeneration depend on the nature of the injury

1995 • 129 citations

How Calcium Influx through Calcium Leak Channels Is Responsible for the Elevated Levels of Calcium-dependent Proteolysis in Dystrophic Myotubes

2000 • 128 citations

Skeletal muscle satellite cells appear during late chicken embryogenesis

1992 • 128 citations

Expression of hepatocyte growth factor in growing and regenerating rat skeletal muscle

1993 • 128 citations

Aging normal and dystrophic mouse muscle: Analysis of myogenicity in cultures of living single fibers

1998 • 127 citations

Expression ofMsx-2 during development, regeneration, and wound healing in axolotl limbs

1998 • 127 citations

The Cell Adhesion Molecule M-Cadherin Is Not Essential for Muscle Development and Regeneration

2002 • 127 citations

The role of CD34 expression and cellular fusion in the regeneration capacity of myogenic progenitor cells

2002 • 125 citations

Effects of leukaemia inhibitory factor and other cytokines on murine and human myoblast proliferation

1992 • 122 citations

Myostatin regulation during skeletal muscle regeneration

2000 • 120 citations

Pax genes and their role in organogenesis.

1999 • 118 citations

A quantitative ultrastructural analysis of satellite cells in denervated fast and slow muscles of the mouse

1983 • 115 citations

Patterns of repair of dystrophic mouse muscle: Studies on isolated fibers

1999 • 115 citations

Differential expression of myogenic regulatory genes and Msx‐1 during dedifferentiation and redifferentiation of regenerating amphibian limbs

1995 • 114 citations

Apoptotic myonuclei in human Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

1998 • 111 citations

Functional characteristics of dystrophic skeletal muscle: insights from animal models

2002 • 111 citations

The cell adhesion molecule M-cadherin is specifically expressed in developing and regenerating, but not denervated skeletal muscle

1993 • 109 citations

Muscle precursor cells injected into irradiated mdx mouse muscle persist after serial injury

1999 • 109 citations

Molecular Pathogenesis of Muscle Degeneration in the δ-Sarcoglycan-Deficient Hamster

1998 • 109 citations

Plasmin activity is required for myogenesis in vitro and skeletal muscle regeneration in vivo

2002 • 108 citations

Muscle stem cells

2002 • 108 citations

Regenerated mdx mouse skeletal muscle shows differential mRNA expression

2002 • 107 citations

Molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in the generation of fiber diversity during myogenesis

2002 • 107 citations

6 Seeking Muscle Stem Cells

1998 • 106 citations

The homeobox gene Msx1 is expressed in a subset of somites, and in muscle progenitor cells migrating into the forelimb

1999 • 106 citations

Slug Is a Novel Downstream Target of MyoD

2002 • 105 citations

Myf-5 Revisited

2000 • 105 citations

Cellular differences in the regeneration of murine skeletal muscle: a quantitative histological study in SJL/J and BALB/c mice

1992 • 104 citations

Involvement of Ras and Ral in Chemotactic Migration of Skeletal Myoblasts

2000 • 103 citations

Cellular responses to free grafting of the extensor digitorum longus muscle of the rat

1979 • 101 citations

Transplanted primary neonatal myoblasts can give rise to functional satellite cells as identified using the Myf5nlacZl+ mouse

2001 • 101 citations

Localization of leukemia inhibitory factor and interleukin-6 messenger ribonucleic acids in regenerating rat skeletal muscle

1998 • 101 citations

Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) induces myotube hypertrophy associated with an increase in anaerobic glycolysis in a clonal skeletal-muscle cell model

1999 • 97 citations

Fibroblast growth factor is stored in fiber extracellular matrix and plays a role in regulating muscle hypertrophy

1989 • 97 citations

Phagocytosis of necrotic muscle in muscle isografts is influenced by the strain, age, and sex of host mice

1987 • 96 citations

Expression of specific white adipose tissue genes in denervation‐induced skeletal muscle fatty degeneration

1998 • 95 citations

Primitive hematopoietic cells in murine bone marrow express the CD34 antigen

1996 • 95 citations

Cross-bridge action: present views, prospects, and unknowns.

2000 • 94 citations

The transforming growth factor-betas: multifaceted regulators of the development and maintenance of skeletal muscles, motoneurons and Schwann cells.

2002 • 93 citations

Absence of exogenous satellite cell contribution to regeneration of frozen skeletal muscle

1986 • 92 citations

The Time Course of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Expression in Crush-Injured Skeletal Muscles of SJL/J and BALB/c Mice

1995 • 92 citations

CD34+ endothelial cell lines derived from murine yolk sac induce the proliferation and differentiation of yolk sac CD34+ hematopoietic progenitors

1995 • 92 citations

Ca2+-dependent proteinases (calpains) and muscle cell differentiation

1994 • 91 citations

Myoblast fusion in Drosophila

2002 • 90 citations

Differential response of satellite cells and embryonic myoblasts to a tumor promoter

1983 • 90 citations

Expression ofMsx genes in regenerating and developing limbs of axolotl

1998 • 88 citations

Effects of skeletal muscle regeneration on the proliferation potential of satellite cells

1985 • 87 citations

Temporal appearance of satellite cells during myogenesis

1992 • 87 citations

Growth factor regulation of bovine satellite cell growth in vitro.

1991 • 86 citations

Basic fibroblast growth factor promotes in vivo muscle regeneration in murine muscular dystrophy

1995 • 86 citations

Large-scale analysis of differential gene expression in the hindlimb muscles and diaphragm of mdx mouse

2000 • 83 citations

Aging-related satellite cell differentiation defect occurs prematurely after Ski-induced muscle hypertrophy

2002 • 82 citations

Increase in the level of m-calpain correlates with the elevated cleavage of filamin during myogenic differentiation of embryonic muscle cells

1993 • 80 citations

Partial characterization of skeletal myoblast mitogens in mouse crushed muscle extract

1992 • 80 citations

Implanted myoblasts not only fuse with myofibers but also survive as muscle precursor cells

1993 • 80 citations

Angiogenic and inflammatory responses following skeletal muscle injury are altered by immune neutralization of endogenous basic fibroblast growth factor, insulin-like growth factor-1 and transforming growth factor-β1

1996 • 79 citations

Region‐ and stage‐specific effects of FGFs and BMPs in chick mandibular morphogenesis

2002 • 79 citations

Fusion Competence of Myoblasts Rendered Genetically Null for N-Cadherin in Culture

1997 • 78 citations

A comparison of muscle precursor replication in crush-injured skeletal muscle of Swiss and BALBc mice

1989 • 78 citations

Myostatin in Muscle Growth and Repair

2001 • 77 citations

Function of skeletal muscle tissue formed after myoblast transplantation into irradiated mouse muscles

2000 • 76 citations

Clonogenic analysis reveals reserve stem cells in postnatal mammals: I. Pluripotent mesenchymal stem cells

2001 • 75 citations

Activation of insulin-like growth factor II expression during skeletal muscle regeneration in the rat: correlation with myotube formation.

1992 • 74 citations

Inhibition and Reversal of Myogenic Differentiation by Purine-Based Microtubule Assembly Inhibitors

2002 • 73 citations

MyoD and Myf-5 define the specification of musculature of distinct embryonic origin

1998 • 72 citations

DifferentMRF4Knockout Alleles Differentially Disrupt Myf-5 Expression:cis-Regulatory Interactions at theMRF4/Myf-5Locus

1997 • 72 citations

An antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotide to m-calpain mRNA inhibits myoblast fusion

1995 • 71 citations

Heterogeneity in the progeny of single human muscle satellite cells

1995 • 70 citations

Dual Control of Muscle Cell Survival by Distinct Growth Factor-Regulated Signaling Pathways

2000 • 70 citations

Convenient genotyping of six myostatin mutations causing double‐muscling in cattle using a multiplex oligonucleotide ligation assay

2000 • 68 citations

Potential m-Calpain Substrates during Myoblast Fusion

1999 • 67 citations

Microinjection of Calpastatin Inhibits Fusion in Myoblasts

1999 • 67 citations

The Exogenous Administration of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor to Regenerating Skeletal Muscle in Mice Does Not Enhance the Process of Regeneration

1996 • 67 citations

Exercise increases inflammatory macrophage antitumor cytotoxicity

1993 • 65 citations

The Influence of Growth Factors on Turkey Embryonic Myoblasts and Satellite Cells in Vitro

1993 • 64 citations

Temporal expression of growth factor genes during myogenesis of satellite cells derived from the biceps femoris and pectoralis major muscles of the chicken

2000 • 63 citations

9 Determination and Morphogenesis in Myogenic Progenitor Cells: An Experimental Embryological Approach

1999 • 62 citations

Histochemical changes in innervated and denervated skeletal muscle fibers following treatment with bupivacaine (marcain)

1975 • 59 citations

FGF Receptor Availability Regulates Skeletal Myogenesis

1999 • 59 citations

Systemic administration of insulin-like growth factor decreases motor neuron cell death and promotes muscle reinnervation

1998 • 57 citations

Skeletal muscle development in the mouse embryo.

2000 • 56 citations

Serum creatine kinase and pyruvate kinase in duchenne muscular dystrophy carrier detection

1979 • 55 citations

The Influence of Physical Exercise on Peritoneal Macrophage Functions: Histochemical and Phagocytic Studies

1988 • 55 citations

Further aspects of muscular dystrophy in mdx mice

1993 • 54 citations

Creatine kinase, myosin heavy chains and magnetic resonance imaging after eccentric exercise

2001 • 54 citations

Radiation inhibition of mdx mouse muscle regeneration: Dose and age factors

1995 • 53 citations

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1973 • 53 citations

Skeletal Muscle Regeneration Is Not Impaired in Fgf6 −/− Mutant Mice

2000 • 52 citations

Myostatin levels in regenerating rat muscles and in myogenic cell cultures.

2000 • 51 citations

Satellite cells in mature, uninjured skeletal muscle of the lizard tail

1974 • 51 citations

Changes in the Satellite Cell Population during Postnatal Growth of Pig Skeletal Muscle1

1981 • 50 citations

Leukaemia inhibitory factor treatment stimulates muscle regeneration in the mdx mouse

1996 • 50 citations

M-cadherin and its sisters in development of striated muscle

1999 • 50 citations

The host environment determines strain‐specific differences in the timing of skeletal muscle regeneration: cross‐transplantation studies between SJL/J and BALB/c mice

1997 • 49 citations

Retarded myogenic cell replication in regenerating skeletal muscles of old mice: an autoradiographic study in young and old BALBc and SJL/J mice

1995 • 49 citations

Emergence of TPA-resistant ‘satellite’ cells during muscle histogenesis of human limb

1985 • 49 citations

Expression and activity of the newt Msx-1 gene in relation to limb regeneration

1995 • 49 citations

Skeletal Muscle Injury Induces Hepatocyte Growth Factor Expression in Spleen

2002 • 49 citations

Leukemia inhibitory factor ameliorates muscle fiber degeneration in the mdx mouse

2000 • 48 citations

Expression of Myostatin Gene in Regenerating Skeletal Muscle of the Rat and Its Localization

2000 • 46 citations

Intrinsic Differences in MyoD and Myogenin Expression between Primary Cultures of SJL/J and BALB/C Skeletal Muscle

1994 • 45 citations

Perisynaptic satellite cells in human external intercostal muscle: A quantitative and qualitative study

1989 • 45 citations

Muscle satellite cells in urodele amphibians: Facilitated identification of satellite cells using ruthenium red staining

1976 • 45 citations

HumanSLUGGene Organization, Expression, and Chromosome Map Location on 8q

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Specific binding of leukemia inhibitory factor to murine myoblasts in culture

1995 • 43 citations

MRF4 protein expression in regenerating rat muscle.

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Myoblast senescence in muscular dystrophy

1985 • 42 citations

Apparent normal phenotype of Fgf6-/- mice.

1997 • 40 citations

The Urokinase Plasminogen Activator: An Interesting Way to Improve Myoblast Migration Following Their Transplantation

2002 • 39 citations

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1979 • 39 citations

Absence of desmin slightly prolongs myoblast proliferation and delays fusion in vivo in regenerating grafts of skeletal muscle

2001 • 38 citations

NF-κB Mediates FGF Signal Regulation of msx-1 Expression

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Leukemia inhibitory factor enhances regeneration in skeletal muscles after myoblast transplantation

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Muscle fiber branching — difference between grafts in old and young rats

1991 • 35 citations

The effects of colchicine on regeneration of mouse skeletal muscle

1961 • 34 citations

M-Cadherin-Mediated Cell Adhesion and Complex Formation with the Catenins in Myogenic Mouse Cells

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Evaluation of Muscle Injury Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

1993 • 33 citations

Major Alteration of the Pathological Phenotype in Gamma Irradiated mdx Soleus Muscles

1991 • 32 citations

In Situ Hybridization Analysis for Expression of Myogenic Regulatory Factors in Regenerating Muscle of mdx Mouse

1996 • 31 citations

Electron microscope observations on human fetal striated muscle.

1978 • 31 citations

IGF-II ameliorates the dystrophic phenotype and coordinately down-regulates programmed cell death

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Review of current progress in the structure and function of Smad proteins.

2002 • 29 citations

Branched myofibers in long‐term whole muscle transplants: A quantitative study

1984 • 29 citations

Regulation of chick muscle satellite cells by fibroblast growth factors: interaction with insulin-like growth factor-I and heparin.

1995 • 27 citations

In vitro myoblast to myotube transformations in the presence of leukemia inhibitory factor

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Ontogeny of the Endothelial System in the Avian Model

2000 • 26 citations

Stable integration of an mdx skeletal muscle cell line into dystrophic (mdx) skeletal muscle: evidence for stem cell status.

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Osteogenic Induction in Hereditary Disorders of Heterotopic Ossification

2000 • 23 citations

Calpain and myogenesis: development of a convenient cell culture model

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Evidence that acidic fibroblast growth factor promotes maturation of rat satellite-cell-derived myotubes in vitro

1999 • 22 citations

Development and innervation of soleplates in the freely grafted extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle in the rat

1983 • 19 citations

Changes in some troponin and insulin-like growth factor messenger ribonucleic acids in regenerating and denervated skeletal muscles

1996 • 19 citations

Association of an unusual form of a Pax7-like gene with increased efficiency of skeletal muscle regeneration

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Antisense inhibition of myoD expression in regenerating rat soleus muscle is followed by an increase in the mRNA levels of myoD, myf-5 and myogenin and by a retarded regeneration

2002 • 19 citations

Potentiation of Cytostatic But Not Cytolytic Activity of Murine Macrophages After Running Stress*

1990 • 18 citations

Active muscle length reduction progressively damages soleus in hindlimb‐suspended rabbits

1992 • 17 citations

Cell Culture Systems as Tools for Studying Age-Related Changes in Skeletal Muscle

1995 • 16 citations

Exogenous expression of Msx1 renders myoblasts refractory to differentiation into myotubes and elicits enhanced biosynthesis of four unique mRNAs.

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Studies on the evolution and function of different forms of the mouse myogenic gene Myo-D1 and upstream flanking region

1993 • 13 citations

Myogenic Shape-Shifters

1999 • 11 citations

Increased levels of leukemia inhibitory factor mRNA in muscular dystrophy and human muscle trauma

2000 • 11 citations

Procion orange tracer dye technique vs. identification of intrafibrillar fibronectin in the assessment of sarcolemmal damage

2002 • 10 citations

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Skeletal Muscle Development

2002 • 10 citations

Pax7 includes two polymorphic homeoboxes which contain rearrangements associated with differences in the ability to regenerate damaged skeletal muscle in adult mice

1998 • 8 citations

SCID mouse models: More than furry flasks

1997 • 3 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations