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Jonathan N Rosen1, Mary K Baylies1.
Abstract
During muscle development, nuclei travel from the centre of the myofibre to the periphery, a process defective in certain diseases. A new study reveals that this movement is due to centripetal forces imposed on nuclei by the crosslinking and contraction of myofibrils.Entities:
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28960202 PMCID: PMC5933531 DOI: 10.1038/ncb3618
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Cell Biol ISSN: 1465-7392 Impact factor: 28.824