Postnatal Pax7-expressing limb cells are multipotent and generate non-myogenic lineages that persist into adulthood.
Stamatia Gioftsidi, Takuto Hayashi, Sidy Fall, Sabrina Jagot, Matthieu Dos Santos, Fabien Le Grand, Frédéric Relaix, Philippos Mourikis
This study shows that postnatal Pax7+ cells in limb muscles are multipotent, generating non-myogenic lineages like fibro-adipogenic progenitors that persist into adulthood and respond to injury.
Developmental Cell · Aug 21, 2026Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology