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Membrane traffic and muscle: lessons from human disease.
Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) - 1 Jul 2008
Dowling James J, Gibbs Elizabeth M, Feldman Eva L
Abstract excerpt
Like all mammalian tissues, skeletal muscle is dependent on membrane traffic for proper development and homeostasis. This fact is underscored by the observation that several human diseases of the skeletal muscle are caused by mutations in gene products of the membrane trafficking machinery. An examination of these diseases and the proteins that underlie them is instructive both in terms of determining disease...
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