Myf-5 and myoD genes are activated in distinct mesenchymal stem cells and determine different skeletal muscle cell lineages.

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

1993 • 1,663 citations

The myoD Gene Family: Nodal Point During Specification of the Muscle Cell Lineage

1991 • 1,564 citations

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

1993 • 1,314 citations

Inactivation of MyoD in mice leads to up-regulation of the myogenic HLH gene Myf-5 and results in apparently normal muscle development

1992 • 973 citations

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

1993 • 912 citations

Targeted inactivation of the muscle regulatory gene Myf-5 results in abnormal rib development and perinatal death

1992 • 700 citations

bHLH factors in muscle development: dead lines and commitments, what to leave in and what to leave out.

1994 • 686 citations

Expression of two myogenic regulatory factors myogenin and MyoDl during mouse embryogenesis

1989 • 662 citations

Two myogenic lineages within the developing somite

1992 • 570 citations

Early expression of the myogenic regulatory gene, myf-5, in precursor cells of skeletal muscle in the mouse embryo

1991 • 548 citations

Positive autoregulation of the myogenic determination gene MyoD1

1989 • 492 citations

Myogenic cell lineages

1992 • 360 citations

Differential expression of myogenic determination genes in muscle cells: possible autoactivation by the Myf gene products.

1989 • 349 citations

Transgenic mice with inducible dwarfism

1989 • 302 citations

Myogenin is required for late but not early aspects of myogenesis during mouse development.

1995 • 292 citations

The muscle regulatory gene, Myf-6, has a biphasic pattern of expression during early mouse development.

1991 • 265 citations

Thymidine kinase obliteration: creation of transgenic mice with controlled immune deficiency.

1989 • 178 citations

Inactivation of Myf-6 and Myf-5 genes in mice leads to alterations in skeletal muscle development.

1995 • 172 citations

Myoblast diversity in skeletal myogenesis: How much and to what end?

1992 • 164 citations

Wiring diagrams: regulatory circuits and the control of skeletal myogenesis

1994 • 154 citations

MyoD expression marks the onset of skeletal myogenesis in Myf-5 mutant mice

1994 • 132 citations

Somite subdomains, muscle cell origins, and the four muscle regulatory factor proteins.

1994 • 117 citations

ES-cells Carrying Two Inactivated myf-5 Alleles Form Skeletal Muscle Cells: Activation of an Alternative myf-5-Independent Differentiation Pathway

1994 • 46 citations