Zebrafish models flex their muscles to shed light on muscular dystrophies

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 726-732

  Berger, Joachim ^a   Currie, Peter D ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSTROBREVIN; DYSTROGLYCAN; DYSTROPHIN; INTEGRIN LINKED KINASE; MEROSIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SARCOGLYCAN; SYNTROPHIN; ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ATROPHY; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONGENITAL MYASTHENIC SYNDROME; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MODEL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LARVA; MECHANICAL STRESS; MEMBRANE STABILIZATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE TISSUE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SARCOLEMMA; STOP CODON; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, ANIMAL; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 84870035489     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.010082     Document Type: Review

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