The article describes myogenic satellite cells, their markers, quantification and distribution, growth factors and hormones involved in their regulation, interaction with macrophages and monocytes, functional answers to physiologic stimuli/disease states, genetic models of myopathies and muscular regeneration, ectopic muscle formation, muscle formation and precursor cell, satellite cell origin, peripheral cells, extraocular muscles and satellite cells.
Satellite cells; Muscle fibers; MyoD protein; Regeneration; Growth substances; Myogenic regulatory factors