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Autophagic vacuolar pathology in desminopathies.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Mar 2015
Weihl Conrad C, Iyadurai Stanley, Baloh Robert H, Pittman Sara K, Schmidt Robert E, Lopate Glenn, Pestronk Alan, Harms Matthew B
Abstract excerpt
Autophagic vacuolar myopathies are an emerging group of muscle diseases with common pathologic features. These include autophagic vacuoles containing both lysosomal and autophagosomal proteins sometimes lined with sarcolemmal proteins such as dystrophin. These features have been most clearly described in patients with Danon's disease due to LAMP2 deficiency and X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy (XMEA)...
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