growth and differentiation, more understanding is needed for their roles. Which members of the fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) family are involved in skeletal muscle development and in myoblast-mediated regeneration of muscle following injury, is now known. Attempts to study of these factors includes investigation of growth hormone receptor (GH-R) mRNA in avian skeletal muscle tissue and satellite cells in culture and its capability of binding cGH (Halevy, Hodik, & Mett, 1996). Also studied was the interactions of chicken GH (cGH) with basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) (Hodik, Mett, & Halevy, 1997). Templeton and Hauschka (1992) studied FGFR transcripts in a mouse skeletal myoblast cell line during growth and terminal differentiation.
Halevy, Hodik, and Mett studied the expression of chicken GH-R mRNA in muscle and cultured satellite cells, and effects of recombinant cGH on chicken skeletal muscle satellite cell proliferation and differentiation. Materials included male broiler chicks
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