Dystrophin-deficient pigs provide new insights into the hierarchy of physiological derangements of dystrophic muscle

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 4368-4382

  Klymiuk, Nikolai ^a   Blutke, Andreas ^a   Graf, Alexander ^a   Krause, Sabine ^b   Burkhardt, Katinka ^a   Wuensch, Annegret ^a   Krebs, Stefan ^a   Kessler, Barbara ^a   Zakhartchenko, Valeri ^a   Kurome, Mayuko ^a   Kemter, Elisabeth ^a   Nagashima, Hiroshi ^c   Schoser, Benedikt ^b   Herbach, Nadja ^a   Blum, Helmut ^a   Wanke, Rü diger ^a   Aartsma Rus, Annemieke ^d   Thirion, Christian ^b   Lochmü ller, Hanns ^e   Walter, Maggie C ^b   Wolf, Eckhard ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; DYSTROPHIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EXERCISE; EXON; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; LIFESPAN; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; MUSCLE METABOLISM; MUSCLE REGENERATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOFIBROSIS; MYOSITIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; DYSTROPHIN; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, ANIMAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE DELETION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84885723361     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt287     Document Type: Article

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