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Patterning of fast and slow fibers within embryonic muscles is established independently of signals from the surrounding mesenchyme

¹ Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, 94305-5151, USA
² Institute of Anatomy II, University of Freiburg, Albertstrasse 17, POB 111, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany

*Author for correspondence (e-mail: mlfes{at}Stanford.edu)

Accepted April 20, 2001

During embryonic development, and before functional innervation, a highly stereotypic pattern of slow- and fast-contracting primary muscle fibers is established within individual muscles of the limbs, from distinct populations of myoblasts. A difference between the fiber-type pattern found within chicken and quail pectoral muscles was exploited to investigate the contributions of somite-derived myogenic precursors and lateral plate-derived mesenchymal stroma to the establishment of muscle fiber-type patterns. Chimeric chicken/quail embryos were constructed by reciprocal transplantation of somites or lateral plate mesoderm at stages prior to muscle formation. Muscle fibers derived from quail myogenic precursors that had migrated into chicken stroma showed a quail pattern of mixed fast- and slow-contracting muscle fibers. Conversely, chicken myogenic precursors that had migrated into quail stroma showed a chicken pattern of nearly exclusive fast muscle fiber formation. These results demonstrate in vivo an intrinsic commitment to fiber-type on the part of the myoblast, independent of extrinsic signals it receives from the mesenchymal stroma in which it differentiates.

Key words: Skeletal muscle, Chicken/quail chimeras, Muscle fiber-type, Hypaxial musculature, Limb development

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