Cell type · L1
muscle_stem_cell
2,765 cells in the full atlas (not the displayed sample).
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Marker genes
PAX7, MYF5, VCAM1, SPRY1, CDH15
Annotation genes
PAX7, MYF5, VCAM1
Annotation rationales
Muscle stem cells, or satellite cells, reside beneath the skeletal-muscle basal lamina and are maintained by a PAX7-centred quiescence program.
Functional implications
They activate after damage, expand as myogenic progenitors and fuse to repair or replace muscle fibres while renewing the stem-cell pool.
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