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Induced deletion of the N-cadherin gene in the heart leads to dissolution of the intercalated disc structure.
Circulation research - 18 Feb 2005
Kostetskii Igor, Li Jifen, Xiong Yanming, Zhou Rong, Ferrari Victor A, Patel Vickas V, Molkentin Jeffery D, Radice Glenn L
Abstract excerpt
The structural integrity of the heart is maintained by the end-to-end connection between the myocytes called the intercalated disc. The intercalated disc contains different junctional complexes that enable the myocardium to function as a syncytium. One of the junctional complexes, the zonula adherens or adherens junction, consists of the cell adhesion molecule, N-cadherin, which mediates strong homophilic...
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