Immunocytochemical localization of myotonin protein kinase on muscle from patients with congenital myotonic dystrophy

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 869-871

  Tachi, N ^a   Kozuka, N ^a   Ohya, K ^b   Chiba, S ^b   Kikuchi, K ^b  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

immunochemistry; myotonic dystrophy; myotonin protein kinase

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; ALLELES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DNA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SARCOLEMMA;

EID: 0029966813     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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