Absence of integrin α7 causes a novel form of muscular dystrophy

Nature Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 318-323

  Mayer, Ulrike ^a   Saher, Gesine ^a   Fässler, Reinhard ^a   Bornemann, Antje ^b   Echtermeyer, Frank ^c   Von Der Mark, Helga ^c   Miosge, Nicolai ^d   Pöschl, Ernst ^c   Von Der Mark, Klaus ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOMOZYGOTE; INTEGRIN ALPHA CHAINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED MDX; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, ANIMAL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TENASCIN; TENDONS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030724952     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1197-318     Document Type: Article

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