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Muscle Cell Biology Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom.
Cell. 2004 Nov 12;119(4):447-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2004.10.022.
In this issue of Cell (Sherwood et al., 2004), a quantitative survey confirms that repair of skeletal muscle is overwhelmingly attributable to the endogenous satellite cell population but that experience of a regenerating muscle environment confers some myogenic qualities onto a tiny population of bone marrow-derived cells.