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- noun Any of a family of
transmembrane proteins involved in the proteincomplex responsible for connecting themuscle fibre cytoskeleton to theextracellular matrix , preventing damage to the muscle fibresarcolemma throughshearing forces.
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Examples
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These mutations created a stop codon that led to a - sarcoglycan deficiency, and we therefore diagnosed these two patients as having LGMD2C.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Yo Okizuka 2010
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The remaining two patients had normal dystrophin expression but absence of - sarcoglycan in skeletal muscle.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Yo Okizuka 2010
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Sampaolesi M, Torrente Y, Innocenzi A, Tonlorenzi R, D'Antona G, et al. (2003) Cell therapy of alpha-sarcoglycan null dystrophic mice through intra-arterial delivery of mesoangioblasts.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ara Parlakian et al. 2010
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Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy actually describes more than 19 disorders that occur because patients have a faulty alpha-sarcoglycan gene.
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Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy actually describes more than 19 disorders that occur because patients have a faulty alpha-sarcoglycan gene.
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