Muscle determination: Another key player in myogenesis?
Open Access
- 1 October 1997
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Current Biology
- Vol. 7 (10), R620-R623
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00317-4
Abstract
The steps that commit multipotential somite cells to muscle differentiation are being elucidated. Recent results show that pax3 is an upstream regulator of myoD, one of the key genes in myogenic lineage determination.Keywords
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