Population
Muscle cells (smooth muscle from chicken gizzard, skeletal muscle, and heart muscle)
Design
Preclinical
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May inform cytoskeletal research in myopathies; leaves open clinical translation from animal models.
This basic science study identifies and characterizes desmin, a 50,000 dalton protein that forms intermediate filaments linking myofibrils at Z lines and intercalated disks in muscle cells.
Lazarides et al. (1976) studied this question.