Identification of the embryonic origin of FAPs: Team 10 associated with other teams published a very interesting article in Nature Communications (IF: 12.124)

Team 10 of Frédéric Relaix and François-Jérôme Authier associated with several German and French teams, published a very interesting article in the journal Nature Communications on October 31st, 2017. A story that identifies the embryonic origin of FAPs (Fibro-Adipogenic Progenitors), the population of adult muscle mesenchymal stem cells that differentiate into adipocyte and give fibrosis in pathological expectations…

Vallecillo-García P, Orgeur M, Vom Hofe-Schneider S, Stumm J, Kappert V, Kappert V, Ibrahim DM, Börno ST, Hayashi S, Relaix F, Hildebrandt K, Sengle G, Koch G, Koch M, Timmermann B, Marazzi G, Sassoon DA, Duprez D. and Stricker S. (2017) Nat Commun. 8 (1): 1218. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01120-3.

The article is freely accessible via the Pubmed website: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662571/