The relationship between muscle pathology and DM kinase abnormalities in patients with dystrophia myotonica

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1055-1059

  Murata, Ken Ya ^a   Takayanagi, Tetsuya ^a   Matsumura, Ryusuke ^a   Murata, Kayoko ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

aging; DM kinase abnormalities; dystrophia myotomica; lymphocyte; muscle biopsy

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME DEFECT; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030472522     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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