The cytoplasmic bodies in a congenital myopathy can be stained with antibodies to desmin, the muscle-specific intermediate filament protein
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Nature in Acta Neuropathologica
- Vol. 62 (1-2) , 149-152
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00684933
Abstract
Cytoplasmic bodies found in a muscle biopsy from a 14-year-old girl afflicted with a lifelong congenital myopathy reveal an electron-dense core surrounded by 7–10 nm filaments. Typing of the kind of intermediate filaments present shows that they are of the desmin type.Keywords
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