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. 2025 Sep;603(17):4911-4912.
doi: 10.1113/JP289732. Epub 2025 Aug 22.

Muscle spectrin

Matthew N Rasband  1 , Ahmet Hoke  2 , Chuansheng Zhang  1 , Ozlem Sert  1
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Muscle spectrin

Matthew N Rasband et al. J Physiol. 2025 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: cytoskeleton; muscle; neuromuscular junction.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.. Spectrin gene expression in human muscle.
Transcripts per million (TPM) measured from 818 samples. Data from GTEx project.
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