Tropomyosin structure and function: New insights

Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 124-128

  Muthuchamy, Mariappan ^a   Rethinasamy, Prabhakar ^a   Wieczorek, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPOMYOSIN;

ACTIN MYOSIN INTERACTION; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MOUSE; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0030950908     PISSN: 10501738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1050-1738(97)00004-2     Document Type: Review

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