Zebrafish deficient for Muscleblind-like 2 exhibit features of myotonic dystrophy

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 381-392

  Machuca Tzili, Laura E ^a   Buxton, Sarah ^a   Thorpe, Aaran ^a   Timson, Cathy M ^b   Wigmore, Peter ^a   Luther, Pradeep K ^b   Brook, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE PROTEIN; MUSCLEBLIND LIKE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ZEBRA FISH;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE AND BONES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 79956118537     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.004150     Document Type: Article

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