Disruption of the Sarcoglycan–Sarcospan Complex in Vascular Smooth Muscle

Dystrophin protects the sarcolemma from stresses developed during muscle contraction.

1993 • 1,444 citations

A role for the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex as a transmembrane linker between laminin and actin

1993 • 1,352 citations

Mutations in the gene encoding lamin A/C cause autosomal dominant Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy

1999 • 1,318 citations

MLP-Deficient Mice Exhibit a Disruption of Cardiac Cytoarchitectural Organization, Dilated Cardiomyopathy, and Heart Failure

1997 • 831 citations

Actin Mutations in Dilated Cardiomyopathy, a Heritable Form of Heart Failure

1998 • 606 citations

Enteroviral protease 2A cleaves dystrophin: Evidence of cytoskeletal disruption in an acquired cardiomyopathy

1999 • 553 citations

Disruption of muscle architecture and myocardial degeneration in mice lacking desmin.

1996 • 515 citations

Mutations in the Dystrophin-Associated Protein γ-Sarcoglycan in Chromosome 13 Muscular Dystrophy

1995 • 497 citations

Missense mutations in the adhalin gene linked to autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy

1994 • 459 citations

Autosomal recessive limbgirdle muscular dystrophy, LGMD2F, is caused by a mutation in the δ–sarcoglycan gene

1996 • 422 citations

Muscular dystrophies and the dystrophin–glycoprotein complex

1997 • 379 citations

Progressive Muscular Dystrophy in α-Sarcoglycan–deficient Mice

1998 • 351 citations

Microvascular spasm in the cardiomyopathic Syrian hamster: a preventable cause of focal myocardial necrosis.

1982 • 295 citations

γ-Sarcoglycan Deficiency Leads to Muscle Membrane Defects and Apoptosis Independent of Dystrophin

1998 • 287 citations

The role of cytoskeletal proteins in cardiomyopathies

1998 • 275 citations

Sarcospan, the 25-kDa Transmembrane Component of the Dystrophin-Glycoprotein Complex

1997 • 199 citations

Membrane Targeting and Stabilization of Sarcospan Is Mediated by the Sarcoglycan Subcomplex

1999 • 146 citations

Heart involvement in muscular dystrophies due to sarcoglycan gene mutations

1999 • 135 citations

ε-Sarcoglycan Replaces α-Sarcoglycan in Smooth Muscle to Form a Unique Dystrophin-Glycoprotein Complex

1999 • 135 citations

The sarcoglycan complex in limb–girdle muscular dystrophy

1998 • 134 citations

A treadmill exercise regimen for identifying cardiovascular phenotypes in transgenic mice

1997 • 100 citations

Molecular Mechanism of Action of Nicorandil

1992 • 70 citations

A first missense mutation in the delta sarcoglycan gene associated with a severe phenotype and frequency of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2F (LGMD2F) in Brazilian sarcoglycanopathies.

1998 • 51 citations

Delineation of genomic deletion in cardiomyopathic hamster

1999 • 39 citations

Management of vasospastic angina?Role of nicorandil

1995 • 31 citations