Dystrophin and the integrity of the sarcolemma in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
- Vol. 45 (2) , 175-177
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01954866
Abstract
It is suggested that in Duchenne muscular dystrophy the absence of dystrophin, which is probably a cytoskeletal protein underlying the sarcolemma, causes changes in stretch-activated cation channels rather than direct mechanical tearing of the surface membrane.This publication has 60 references indexed in Scilit:
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