The cytoplasmic bodies in a congenital myopathy can be stained with antibodies to desmin, the muscle-specific intermediate filament protein.
Cytoplasmic bodies found in a muscle biopsy from a 14-year-old girl afflicted with a lifelong congenital myopathy reveal an electron-dense core surrounded by 7-10 nm filaments. Typing of the kind of intermediate filaments present shows that they are of the desmin type.
D000293:Adolescent; D001706:Biopsy; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000032:analysis; D003893:Desmin; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002479:Inclusion Bodies / Q000032:analysis*; D007381:Intermediate Filament Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000151:congenital* / Q000473:pathology
D003893:Desmin; D007381:Intermediate Filament Proteins