The zebrafish runzel muscular dystrophy is linked to the titin gene

Developmental Biology

Volumn 309, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 180-192

  Steffen, Leta S ^a   Guyon, Jeffrey R ^a   Vogel, Emily D ^a   Howell, Melanie H ^a   Zhou, Yi ^b,c   Weber, Gerhard J ^b,c   Zon, Leonard I ^b,c,d   Kunkel, Louis M ^a,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Muscular dystrophy; Sarcomere; Titin; Titinopathy; Zebrafish; Zebrafish muscle

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN 3; CONNECTIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOMICS; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34548451193     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.06.015     Document Type: Article

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