REVERSIBLE IMMORTALIZATION BY THE CRE-LOCS RECOMBINASE AND MYOGENIC CONVERSION AS TOOLS FOR IN VITRO AMPLIFICATION OF RETROVIRALLY- TRANSDUCED HUMAN DYSGENIC MUSCLE PROGENITOR CELLS

Scientific Publications

• 1998 JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

  High efficiency myogenic conversion of human fibroblasts by adenoviral vector-mediated MyoD gene transfer - An alternative strategy for ex vivo gene therapy of primary myopathies

• 1997 HISTOLOGY AND HISTOPATHOLOGY

  Unorthodox myogenesis: Possible developmental significance and implications for tissue histogenesis and regeneration

• 2002 MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT

  Dmbx1 is a paired-box containing gene specifically expressed in the caudal most brain structures

• 1998 SCIENCE

  Muscle regeneration by bone marrow derived myogenic progenitors

• 1999 HUMAN GENE THERAPY

  Reversible immortalization of human myogenic cells by site-specific excision of a retrovirally transferred oncogene

• 1998 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AME

  Inhibition of myogenesis by transforming growth factor beta is density-dependent and related to the translocation of transcription factor MEF2 to the cytoplasm

• 1997 CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

  Establishing myogenic identity during somitogenesis

• 1998 DEVELOPMENT

  Differential activation of Myf5 and MyoD by different Wnts in explants of mouse paraxial mesoderm and the later activation of myogenesis in the absence of Myf5

• 1997 CELL

  Redefining the genetic hierarchies controlling skeletal myogenesis: Pax-3 and Myf-5 act upstream of MyoD

• 1999 EMBO JOURNAL

  Wnt signaling and the activation of myogenesis in mammals