• Pietrosemoli N, Mella S, Yennek S, Baghdadi MB, Sakai H, Sambasivan R, Pala F, Di Girolamo D, Tajbakhsh S. Comparison of multiple transcriptomes exposes unified and divergent features of quiescent and activated skeletal muscle stem cells. Skelet Muscle. 2017 Dec 22;7(1):28. doi: 10.1186/s13395-017-0144-8.

  • Javali A, Misra A, Leonavicius K, Acharyya D, Vyas B, Sambasivan R. Co-expression of Tbx6 and Sox2 identifies a novel transient neuromesoderm progenitor cell state. Development. 2017 144(24):4522-4529.

  • Sambasivan R, Tajbakhsh S. Adult skeletal muscle stem cells. Results Probl Cell Differ. 2015;56:191-213. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-44608-9_9. Review.
  • Gopalakrishnan S, Comai G, Sambasivan R, Francou A, Kelly RG, Tajbakhsh S. A cranial mesoderm origin for esophagus striated muscles. Dev Cell. 2015 Sep 28;34(6):694-704
  • Comai G, Sambasivan R, Gopalakrishnan S, Tajbakhsh, S (2014) Variations in the efficiency of lineage marking and ablation confound distinctions between myogenic cell populations. Dev Cell. 2014 Dec 8; 31(5)-654-67 
  • Sambasivan, R., Comai, G., Roux, I. L., Gomes, D., Konge, J., Dumas, G., Cimper, C., Tajbakhsh, S. Embryonic founders of adult muscle stem cells are primed by the determination gene Mrf4. Dev Biol. 2013. Apr 25. doi:pii: S0012-1606(13)00198-X. 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.04.018. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Gayraud-Morel B, Chrétien F, Jory A, Sambasivan R, Negroni E, Flamant P,Soubigou G, Coppée JY, Di Santo J, Cumano A, Mouly V, Tajbakhsh S. Myf5 haploinsufficiency reveals distinct cell fate potentials for adult skeletal muscle stem cells. J Cell Sci. 2012 Apr 1;125(Pt 7):1738-49.
  • Mourikis P, Sambasivan R, Castel D, Rocheteau P, Bizzarro V, Tajbakhsh S. A critical requirement for notch signaling in maintenance of the quiescent skeletalmuscle stem cell state. Stem Cells. 2012 Feb;30(2):243-52.
  • Sambasivan R, Yao R, Kissenpfennig A, Van Wittenberghe L, Paldi A,Gayraud-Morel B, Guenou H, Malissen B, Tajbakhsh S, Galy A. Pax7-expressingsatellite cells are indispensable for adult skeletal muscle regeneration. Development.2011 Sep;138(17):3647-56.
  • Sambasivan R, Kuratani S, Tajbakhsh S. An eye on the head: the development andevolution of craniofacial muscles. Development. 2011 Jun;138(12):2401-15. Review.
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