Immunohistochemical study and Western blotting analysis of titin-like proteins in the striated muscle of Drosophila melanogaster and in the striated and smooth muscle of the oligochaete Eisenia foetida

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 349-356

  Royuela, Mar ^a   Fraile, Benito ^a   De Paz Miguel, M ^a   Cervera, Margarita ^b   Paniagua, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drosophila muscle; Mini titin; Oligochaete annelid muscle; Projectin, titin

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; CELLS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAMMALS;

BLOTTING ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA OUTER MUSCULAR LAYER OF THE PSEUDO-HEART; DROSOPHILLA; DROSOPHILLA MELANOGASTER; IMMUNOLABELLING; MINI-TITIN; OLIGOCHETE ANNELID OUTER MUSCULAR LAYER OF THE PSEUDO-HEART; PROJECTIN, TITIN; STRIATED MUSCLES; WESTERN-BLOTTING; DROSOPHILA OUTER MUSCULAR LAYER OF THE PSEUDOHEART; OLIGOCHETE ANNELID OUTER MUSCULAR LAYER OF THE PSEUDOHEART; PROJECTIN; TITIN;

MUSCLE;

ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EISENIA FETIDA; GALLUS GALLUS; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI; VERTEBRATA;

CONNECTIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0030463229     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19961101)35:4<349::AID-JEMT6>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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