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1992 • 9,986 citations

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1992 • 9,540 citations

Disruption of epithelial cell-matrix interactions induces apoptosis

1994 • 3,167 citations

The myoD Gene Family: Nodal Point During Specification of the Muscle Cell Lineage

1991 • 1,564 citations

The extracellular matrix as a cell survival factor.

1993 • 1,541 citations

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1994 • 1,442 citations

Suppression of ICE and Apoptosis in Mammary Epithelial Cells by Extracellular Matrix

1995 • 1,184 citations

The MyoD family and myogenesis: Redundancy, networks, and thresholds

1993 • 1,062 citations

Anchorage dependence, integrins, and apoptosis

1994 • 1,016 citations

Three muscular dystrophies: Loss of cytoskeleton-extracellular matrix linkage

1995 • 829 citations

A new nomenclature for the laminins

1994 • 753 citations

Mutations in the laminin α2–chain gene (LAMA2) cause merosin–deficient congenital muscular dystrophy

1995 • 615 citations

Molecular heterogeneity of basal laminae: isoforms of laminin and collagen IV at the neuromuscular junction and elsewhere.

1990 • 588 citations

Laminin, a multidomain protein. The A chain has a unique globular domain and homology with the basement membrane proteoglycan and the laminin B chains.

1988 • 486 citations

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1994 • 466 citations

Congenital muscular dystrophy with merosin deficiency.

1994 • 449 citations

Interplay between proliferation and differentiation within the myogenic lineage

1992 • 424 citations

Merosin, a tissue-specific basement membrane protein, is a laminin-like protein.

1990 • 398 citations

A hierarchy of ECM-mediated signalling regulates tissue-specific gene expression

1995 • 378 citations

Merosin, a protein specific for basement membranes of Schwann cells, striated muscle, and trophoblast, is expressed late in nerve and muscle development.

1988 • 371 citations

Visualization of Dystrophic Muscle Fibers in Mdx Mouse by Vital Staining with Evans Blue: Evidence of Apoptosis in Dystrophin-Deficient Muscle

1995 • 355 citations

Regulatory mechanisms that coordinate skeletal muscle differentiation and cell cycle withdrawal

1994 • 348 citations

Distribution and isolation of four laminin variants; tissue restricted distribution of heterotrimers assembled from five different subunits.

1990 • 346 citations

Murine muscular dystrophy caused by a mutation in the laminin α2 (Lama2) gene

1994 • 346 citations

Expression of several adhesive macromolecules (N-CAM, L1, J1, NILE, uvomorulin, laminin, fibronectin, and a heparan sulfate proteoglycan) in embryonic, adult, and denervated adult skeletal muscle.

1986 • 314 citations

Deficiency of merosin in dystrophic dy mice and genetic linkage of laminin M chain gene to dy locus.

1994 • 299 citations

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1993 • 293 citations

Differentiation requires continuous regulation.

1991 • 276 citations

Human laminin M chain (merosin): complete primary structure, chromosomal assignment, and expression of the M and A chain in human fetal tissues

1994 • 262 citations

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1994 • 254 citations

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1995 • 229 citations

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1996 • 224 citations

Laminin alters cell shape and stimulates motility and proliferation of murine skeletal myoblasts

1988 • 208 citations

A role for integrin in the formation of sarcomeric cytoarchitecture

1990 • 207 citations

Integrin alpha subunit ratios, cytoplasmic domains, and growth factor synergy regulate muscle proliferation and differentiation.

1996 • 195 citations

Localization of merosin-negative congenital muscular dystrophy to chromosome 6q2 by homozygosity mapping

1994 • 195 citations

Increasing complexity of the dystrophin-associated protein complex.

1994 • 194 citations

The E8 subfragment of laminin promotes locomotion of myoblasts over extracellular matrix.

1989 • 193 citations

Synthesis of type IV collagen and laminin in cultures of skeletal muscle cells and their assembly on the surface of myotubes

1982 • 188 citations

Role of myogenin in myoblast differentiation and its regulation by fibroblast growth factor.

1990 • 177 citations

Expression of laminin isoforms in mouse myogenic cells in vitro and in vivo

1995 • 172 citations

Identification of a novel mutant transcript of laminin α2 chain gene responsible for muscular dystrophy and dysmyelination in dy^2J mice

1995 • 170 citations

Fibronectin delays the fusion of L6 myoblasts

1979 • 162 citations

Abnormal localization of laminin subunits in muscular dystrophies

1993 • 161 citations

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1987 • 160 citations

Expression of α7 integrin cytoplasmic domains during skeletal muscle development: alternate forms, conformational change, and homologies with serine/threonine kinases and tyrosine phosphatases

1993 • 159 citations

A new isoform of the laminin receptor integrin alpha 7 beta 1 is developmentally regulated in skeletal muscle.

1993 • 150 citations

Differential expression of laminin A and B chains during development of embryonic mouse organs

1990 • 143 citations

Antagonistic effects of laminin and fibronectin on the expression of the myogenic phenotype

1989 • 136 citations

Laminin variants: Why, where and when?

1993 • 130 citations

Monoclonal antibodies against laminin A chain fragment E3 and their effects on binding to cells and proteoglycan and on kidney development

1992 • 122 citations

Contractile protein isoforms in muscle development

1992 • 106 citations

Reciprocal expression of laminin A-chain isoforms along the crypt-villus axis in the human small intestine

1994 • 103 citations

Novel Isoform of β1 Integrin Expressed in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle

1995 • 97 citations

Merosin promotes cell attachment and neurite outgrowth and ls a component of the neurite-promoting factor of RN22 schwannoma cells

1992 • 90 citations

A Synaptic Localization Domain in the Synaptic Cleft Protein Laminin β2 (s-Laminin)

1995 • 87 citations

Structure of laminin variants. The 300-kDa chains of murine and bovine heart laminin are related to the human placenta merosin heavy chain and replace the a chain in some laminin variants.

1991 • 84 citations

αv and α3 integrin subunits are associated with myofibrils during myofibrillogenesis

1995 • 83 citations

Specific Induction of Cell Motility on Laminin by α7 Integrin

1996 • 81 citations

Extracellular heterotrimeric laminin promotes differentiation in human enterocytes

1995 • 80 citations

The Extracellular Matrix of Skeletal Muscle

1985 • 68 citations

Molecular Cloning of the cDNA Encoding Human Laminin A Chain

1991 • 66 citations

Laminin β2 chain and adhalin deficiency in the skeletal muscle of Walker‐Warburg syndrome (cerebroocular dysplasia‐muscular dystrophy)

1995 • 66 citations

Programmed cell death in dystrophic (mdx) muscle is inhibited by IGF-II.

1995 • 40 citations

Locomotory competence and laminin-specific cell surface binding sites are lost during myoblast differentiation

1989 • 39 citations

Expression of laminin subunits in human fetal skeletal muscle.

1995 • 34 citations

Abnormal expression of laminin suggests disturbance of sarcolemma-extracellular matrix interaction in Japanese patients with autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy deficient in adhalin.

1994 • 30 citations

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1994 • 30 citations

αv and α3 integrin subunits are associated with myofibrils during myofibrillogenesis

1995 • 30 citations

Abnormal localization of laminin subunits in muscular dystrophies

1995 • 25 citations

Expression of laminin chains during myogenic differentiation.

1994 • 25 citations

Cell adhesion in muscle.

1994 • 10 citations