Article
The cardiac mutant Mexican axolotl is a unique animal model for evaluation of cardiac myofibrillogenesis.
Experimental cell research - 1 May 1999
Zajdel R W, Dube D K, Lemanski L F
Abstract excerpt
Hearts from cardiac mutant Mexican axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum, do not form organized myofibrils and fail to beat. Though previous biochemical and immunohistochemical experiments showed a possible reduction of cardiac tropomyosin it was not clear that this caused the lack of organized myofibrils in mutant hearts. We used cationic liposomes to introduce both rabbit and chicken tropomyosin protein into whole...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
