Chimaeric mice deficient in dystroglycans develop muscular dystrophy and have disrupted myoneural synapses

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 338-342

  Côté, Patrice D ^a   Moukhles, Hakima ^a   Lindenbaum, Michael ^a   Carbonetto, Salvatore ^a  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DYSTROGLYCAN; LAMININ; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UTROPHIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CHIMERA; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; DYSTROGLYCANS; DYSTROPHIN; HINDLIMB; HUMANS; LAMININ; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; MUTATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RECEPTOR AGGREGATION; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SARCOGLYCANS; STEM CELLS; UTROPHIN;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0041710928     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/15519     Document Type: Article

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