An agrin minigene rescues dystrophic symptoms in a mouse model for congenital muscular dystrophy

Nature

Volumn 413, Issue 6853, 2001, Pages 302-307

  Moll, Joachim ^a   Barzaghi, Patrizia ^a   Lin, Shuo ^a   Bezakova, Gabriela ^a   Lochmüller, Hanns ^b   Engvall, Eva ^c   Müller, Ulrich ^d   Ruegg, Markus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; MUSCLE; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS;

GENE ENCODING;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

AGRIN; DYSTROGLYCAN; DYSTROPHIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; INTEGRIN; LAMININ;

MEDICINE;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGRIN; ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CHICKENS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DYSTROGLYCANS; LAMININ; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, ANIMAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0035921981     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35095054     Document Type: Article

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