RNA metabolism in myotonic dystrophy. Patient muscle shows decreased insulin receptor RNA and protein consistent with abnormal insulin resistance

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1691-1698

  Morrone, Amelia ^a,c   Pegoraro, Elena ^a,b   Angelini, Corrado ^a,b   Zammarchi, Enrico ^c   Marconi, Giampiero ^c   Hoffman, Eric P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

DM kinase; insulin receptor; insulin resistance; myotonic dystrophy; trinucleotide repeat expansion disorder

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CONTENT; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA METABOLISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0030968054     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI119332     Document Type: Article

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