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Knocking signalling out of the dystrophin complex

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Mice lacking dystrobrevin, a dystrophin-associated protein, exhibit a new form of muscular dystrophy in which the integrity of muscle fibres is maintained, but a component of muscle-cell signalling is disrupted.

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Figure 1: The dystrophin glycoprotein complex.

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  1. the Department of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, 94143, California, USA

    David S. Bredt

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    David S. Bredt

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