Impact of α-skeletal actin but not α-cardiac actin on myoblast morphology

Cell Structure and Function

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 173-179

  Gunning, Peter ^a   Ferguson, Vicki ^a   Brennan, Karen ^a,b   Hardeman, Edna ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin; Cytoarchitecture; Isoforms; Muscle; Transfection

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; TROPOMYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; CELL SPREADING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOARCHITECTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030957678     PISSN: 03867196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1247/csf.22.173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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