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Costameres: the Achilles' Heel of Herculean Muscle
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Like the ancient Greek hero Hercules, striated muscle is famous for performing impressive feats of strength. The procurement of food, breathing, and defense or escape from harm all depend on force production by skeletal muscle whereas contraction of cardiac muscle drives the circulatory system. As with the powerful Achilles, however, striated muscle possesses a small but mortal weakness. That weakness resides in the costamere, a relatively obscure element of the cortical cytoskeleton in striated muscle.
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- Authors
- Ervasti, J. M.
- Venue
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-04
- Volume
- 278
- Issue
- 16
- Pages
- 13591-13594
- ISSN
- 0021-9258 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2055694197
- Cited by
- 446
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 6.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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