Desmin in muscle formation and maintenance: Knockouts and consequences

Cell Structure and Function

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 103-116

  Capetanaki, Yassemi ^a   Milner, Derek J ^a   Weitzer, G ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DESMIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

CELL ADHESION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLAST; MYOTUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOLEMMA; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 0030966537     PISSN: 03867196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1247/csf.22.103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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