Costameres mediate force transduction in healthy skeletal muscle and are altered in muscular dystrophies

Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 590-592

  Bloch, Robert J ^a   Reed, Patrick ^a   O'Neill, Andrea ^a   Strong, John ^a   Williams, Mcrae ^a   Porter, Neil ^a   González Serratos, Hugo ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTININ; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; DYSTROPHIN; LAMININ; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; VINCULIN;

CHROMOSOME 4Q; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROSS LINKING; CYTOSKELETON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SARCOLEMMA; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED MDX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES;

EID: 17644402075     PISSN: 01424319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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