"Desmin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An intermediate filament protein found predominantly in smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscle cells. Localized at the Z line. MW 50,000 to 55,000 is species dependent.
| Descriptor ID |
D003893
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D05.750.078.593.200 D12.776.220.475.200
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| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Desmin" by people in Profiles.
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Dai HY, Zheng M, Tang RN, Ni J, Ma KL, Li Q, Liu BC. Effects of angiotensin receptor blocker on phenotypic alterations of podocytes in early diabetic nephropathy. Am J Med Sci. 2011 Mar; 341(3):207-14.
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Kawai M, Kalaria RN, Cras P, Siedlak SL, Velasco ME, Shelton ER, Chan HW, Greenberg BD, Perry G. Degeneration of vascular muscle cells in cerebral amyloid angiopathy of Alzheimer disease. Brain Res. 1993 Sep 24; 623(1):142-6.