<i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> Muscle

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The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has become established as a major experimental organism with applications to many biomedical research areas. The body wall muscle cells are a useful model for the study of human cardiomyocytes and their homologous structures and proteins. The ability to readily identify mutations affecting these proteins and structures in C elegans and to be able to rigorously characterize...

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