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Expression of cardiac myosin light chain 2 during embryonic heart development in medaka fish, Oryzias latipes, and phylogenetic relationship with other myosin light chains.
Development, growth & differentiation - 1 Jan 2009
Shimada Eriko, Kinoshita Masato, Murata Kenji
Abstract excerpt
Cardiac myosin light chain 2 (MLC-2) plays a key role in heart development, contraction, and embryo and adult heart maintenance. In some animals, defects in the function of cardiac MLC-2 cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. To illuminate the functions of cardiac MLC-2 in embryonic heart formation and contraction, and into the evolution of MLC-2, we characterized the expression and requirement for medaka cardiac...
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