Merosin and laminin in myogenesis; specific requirement for merosin in myotube stability and survival

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1483-1497

  Vachon, Pierre H ^a   Loechel, Frosty ^b   Xu, Hong ^a   Wewer, Ulla M ^b   Engvall, Eva ^a,c  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LAMININ;

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL SURVIVAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MYOTUBE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0029794008     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.134.6.1483     Document Type: Article

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