Manoel Luís Costa

MyoD converts primary dermal fibroblasts, chondroblasts, smooth muscle, and retinal pigmented epithelial cells into striated mononucleated myoblasts and multinucleated myotubes.

John Choi, Manoel Luís Costa, Cláudia Mermelstein et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1990 · 403 citations

Education, Education Policy, Ethnic Studies +17

2D and 3D-Organized Cardiac Cells Shows Differences in Cellular Morphology, Adhesion Junctions, Presence of Myofibrils and Protein Expression

Carolina Pontes Soares, Victor Midlej, Maria Eduarda Weschollek de Oliveira et al. · PLoS ONE · 2012 · 187 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Physiology +17

Some distinctive features of zebrafish myogenesis based on unexpected distributions of the muscle cytoskeletal proteins actin, myosin, desmin, α-actinin, troponin and titin

Manoel Luís Costa, Roberta C. Escaleira, Viviane B Rodrigues et al. · Mechanisms of Development · 2002 · 51 citations

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology +16

Wnt/β-catenin pathway activation and myogenic differentiation are induced by cholesterol depletion

Cláudia Mermelstein, Débora M. Portilho, Fábio A. Mendes et al. · Differentiation · 2006 · 50 citations

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology +15

Reentrant spiral waves of spreading depression cause macular degeneration in hypoglycemic chicken retina

Yufei Yu, Laura Meneghel dos Santos, Linda A. Mattiace et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 50 citations · Full text

Medicine, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology +15