Fast Skeletal Muscle Troponin Activation Increases Force of Mouse Fast Skeletal Muscle and Ameliorates Weakness Due to Nebulin-Deficiency

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Eun Jeong ^a,e   de Winter, Josine M ^b   Buck, Danielle ^a   Jasper, Jeffrey R ^c   Malik, Fady I ^c   Labeit, Siegfried ^d   Ottenheijm, Coen A ^a,b   Granzier, Henk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Cytokinetics Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS AFFECTING METABOLISM; CALCIUM ION; CK 2066260; NEBULIN; TROPONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAST MUSCLE; MOUSE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CALCIUM; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE PROTEINS; SARCOMERES; TROPONIN;

EID: 84874261774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055861     Document Type: Article

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