Myoblast fusion: When it takes more to make one

Developmental Biology

Volumn 341, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 66-83

  Rochlin, Kate ^a,b   Yu, Shannon ^a   Roy, Sudipto ^c,d   Baylies, Mary K ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Drosophilia; Membrane dynamics; Mouse actin cystoskeleton; Myoblast fusion; Vesicle trafficking; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN;

BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL FUSION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL VACUOLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FUSION GENE; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; MESODERM; MITOSIS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE GROWTH; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; MOUSE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

DANIO RERIO;

ANIMALS; CELL FUSION; DROSOPHILA; HUMANS; MICE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLASTS;

EID: 77951213472     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.10.024     Document Type: Review

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