Merrick, D., Chen, H., Larner, D., Smith, J., Adult and Embryonic Skeletal Muscle Microexplant Culture and Isolation of Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells. http://www.jove.com/details.php?id=2051 doi: 10.3791/2051. J Vis Exp. 43 (2010). Merrick D, Stadler LKJ, Larner, DP & Smith J. (2009). Muscular dystrophy begins early in embryonic development deriving from stem cell loss and disrupted skeletal muscle formation. Disease Models & Mechanisms 2, 374-388 Smith, J. & Merrick, D (2010). Embryonic skeletal muscle micro-explant culture and isolation of skeletal muscle stem cells. In: A. Ward, D. Tosh (eds.), Mouse Cell Culture, Methods in Molecular Biology 633, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 Smith, J and others. Biology’s grammarian: Darwin’s dangerous idea today. THES 6th February, 2009 Additional articles written for the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) by Janet Smith can be found on Stadler LKJ, Merrick D & Smith J. (2008) Morphological, stem cell and fast myosin abnormalities in the cav-3-/- and mdx dystrophic embryo reveal an embryonic basis for muscular dystrophy Genetical Research 90:281-289. Merrick D, Ting T, Stadler LKJ & Smith J (2007) A role for Insulin-like growth factor 2 in specification of the fast skeletal muscle fibre. BMC Developmental Biology, 7:65 Foreman MA, Smith J, Publicover SJ.(2006). Characterisation of serum-induced intracellular Ca2+ oscillations in primary bone marrow stromal cells. J Cell Physiol. 206, 664-71.