Costameres mediate force transduction in healthy skeletal muscle and are altered  in muscular dystrophies.
Bloch
Robert J
RJ
Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA.
Reed
Patrick
P
O'Neill
Andrea
A
Strong
John
J
Williams
Mcrae
M
Porter
Neil
N
González-Serratos
Hugo
H
D000818:Animals; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000502:physiology; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D018101:Mice, Inbred mdx; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000502:physiology*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*