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Skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum phenotype in myotonic dystrophy.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Jan 1996
Damiani E, Angelini C, Pelosi M, Sacchetto R, Bortoloso E, Margreth A
Abstract excerpt
In this study we investigated the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), alongside myofibrillar phenotype, in muscle samples from five Myotonic Dystrophy (DM) patients and five control individuals. DM muscles exhibited as a common feature, a decrease in the slow isoform of myosin heavy chain (MHC) and of troponin C in myofibrils. We observed a match between myofibrillar changes and changes in SR membrane markers specific...
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