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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 479135, 15 pages
Obscurin Depletion Impairs Organization of Skeletal Muscle in Developing Zebrafish Embryos
1Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
2Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Received 2 May 2011; Revised 10 July 2011; Accepted 27 July 2011
Academic Editor: Robert J. Bloch
Copyright © 2011 Maide Ö. Raeker and Mark W. Russell. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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