PUBLICATION
On best behavior: cadherins drive slow muscle to their limits
- Authors
- Granato, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-040209-1
- Date
- 2003
- Source
- Developmental Cell 5: 819-820 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Granato, Michael
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Muscle Fibers, Slow-Twitch/cytology*
- Muscle Fibers, Slow-Twitch/physiology
- Animals
- Cadherins/physiology*
- Cell Movement/physiology*
- Muscle, Skeletal/cytology*
- Muscle, Skeletal/embryology*
- PubMed
- 14667401 Full text @ Dev. Cell
Citation
Granato, M. (2003) On best behavior: cadherins drive slow muscle to their limits. Developmental Cell. 5:819-820.
Abstract
In the developing zebrafish somite, slow muscle cells traverse the myotome in a highly coordinated, but poorly understood medial to lateral migration. Now it has been discovered that combinations of cadherin surface proteins play a critical role in this mesodermal cell migration.
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