Mighty is a novel promyogenic factor in skeletal myogenesis

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Mechanobiology, Muscle Function, Molecular Physiology +11

Double muscling in cattle due to mutations in the myostatin gene

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Direct binding of Smad3 and Smad4 to critical TGFbeta -inducible elements in the promoter of human plasminogen activator inhibitor-type 1gene

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Signal Transduction, Molecular Physiology, Signaling Pathway +7

A deletion in the bovine myostatin gene causes the double–muscled phenotype in cattle

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Animal Physiology, Bovine Myostatin Gene, Double–muscled Phenotype +9

Mutations in <i>myostatin</i> (<i>GDF8</i>) in Double-Muscled Belgian Blue and Piedmontese Cattle

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Genetics, Molecular Genetics, Genomics +21