A role for nephrin, a renal protein, in vertebrate skeletal muscle cell fusion

Skeletal muscle is formed via fusion of myoblasts, a well-studied process in Drosophila. In vertebrates however, this process is less well understood, and whether there is evolutionary conservation with the proteins studied in flies is under investigation. Sticks and stones (Sns), a cell surface pro...

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Main Authors: Kalluri, Raghu, Gussoni, Emanuela, Kunkel, Louis M., Guyon, Jeffrey, Mitchell, Matthew, Kawahara, Genri, Huang, Ping, Sohn, Regina Lee
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52549