Term Name: | skeletal muscle satellite stem cell |
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Definition: | A skeletal muscle satellite cell that divides by stem cell division. A proportion of this population undergoes symmetric stem cell division, producing two skeletal muscle satellite stem cells. The rest undergo asymmetric stem cell division - retaining their identity while budding off a daughter cell that differentiates into an adult skeletal muscle myoblast. |
Ontology: | Cell Ontology [CL:0008011] |