Cardiovascular lesions and skeletal myopathy in mice lacking desmin

Developmental Biology

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 362-366

  Li, Zhenlin ^a   Colucci Guyon, Emma ^b   Pinçon Raymond, Martine ^a   Mericskay, Mathias ^a   Pournin, Sandrine ^b   Paulin, Denise ^a   Babinet, Charles ^b  

^a SCME   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MYOBLAST; MYOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029893923     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0122     Document Type: Article

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