"Desmin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An intermediate filament protein found predominantly in smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscle cells. Localized at the Z line. MW 50,000 to 55,000 is species dependent.
| Descriptor ID |
D003893
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D05.750.078.593.200 D12.776.220.475.200
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| 1995 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 1999 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Desmin" by people in Profiles.
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Desmin deficiency is not sufficient to prevent corneal fibrosis. Exp Eye Res. 2019 03; 180:155-163.
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Amelioration of desmin network defects by aB-crystallin overexpression confers cardioprotection in a mouse model of dilated cardiomyopathy caused by LMNA gene mutation. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2018 12; 125:73-86.
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Type III Intermediate Filaments Desmin, Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP), Vimentin, and Peripherin. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2017 Dec 01; 9(12).
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Opposite effects of catalase and MnSOD ectopic expression on stress induced defects and mortality in the desmin deficient cardiomyopathy model. Free Radic Biol Med. 2017 09; 110:206-218.
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Nebulette is a powerful cytolinker organizing desmin and actin in mouse hearts. Mol Biol Cell. 2016 12 01; 27(24):3869-3882.
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Desmin and aB-crystallin interplay in the maintenance of mitochondrial homeostasis and cardiomyocyte survival. J Cell Sci. 2016 10 15; 129(20):3705-3720.
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Strategies to Study Desmin in Cardiac Muscle and Culture Systems. Methods Enzymol. 2016; 568:427-59.
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Tumor necrosis factor-a confers cardioprotection through ectopic expression of keratins K8 and K18. Nat Med. 2015 Sep; 21(9):1076-84.
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Complement system modulation as a target for treatment of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Basic Res Cardiol. 2015 May; 110(3):27.
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Desmin related disease: a matter of cell survival failure. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2015 Feb; 32:113-20.