No Calpain, No Gain: Newly Developed Procedures for the Separation and Characterization of The Calpain Family of Proteins in Human Dystrophic and Non-dystophic Muscle
Muscular dystrophy is a disease which gradually deteriorates skeletal muscle cells, leading to the eventual death of such cells and the surrounding tissue. Calpains are Ca2+- dependent proteases and together with the Ca2+-dependent specific inhibitor of calpains, calpastatin, are widely distributed...
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Language: | en |
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The University of Arizona.
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146022 |