Skeletal muscle alpha-actin diseases

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 642, Issue , 2008, Pages 15-27

  North, Kathryn N ^a,b   Laing, Nigel G ^c  

^a University of Sydney   (Australia)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 60549090228     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-84847-1_2     Document Type: Article

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