David Yaffe

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Top papers

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1 Dissecting muscle and neuronal disorders in a Drosophila model of muscular dystrophy. EMBO J 2007 1.58
2 Dystrophin deficiency in Drosophila reduces lifespan and causes a dilated cardiomyopathy phenotype. Aging Cell 2008 1.52
3 Targeted inactivation of dystrophin gene product Dp71: phenotypic impact in mouse retina. Hum Mol Genet 2003 1.27
4 Regeneration and transdifferentiation potential of muscle-derived stem cells propagated as myospheres. Stem Cells 2006 1.10
5 Kir4.1 and AQP4 associate with Dp71- and utrophin-DAPs complexes in specific and defined microdomains of Müller retinal glial cell membrane. Glia 2008 1.06
6 Role of mental retardation-associated dystrophin-gene product Dp71 in excitatory synapse organization, synaptic plasticity and behavioral functions. PLoS One 2008 0.94
7 Dystrophin Dp71 expression is down-regulated during myogenesis: role of Sp1 and Sp3 on the Dp71 promoter activity. J Biol Chem 2004 0.87
8 The Drosophila homologue of the dystrophin gene - introns containing promoters are the major contributors to the large size of the gene. FEBS Lett 2005 0.82
9 Functional implication of Dp71 in osmoregulation and vascular permeability of the retina. PLoS One 2009 0.80
10 Transplanted myogenic progenitor cells express neuronal markers in the CNS and ameliorate disease in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. J Neuroimmunol 2009 0.79
11 Exogenous Dp71 is a dominant negative competitor of dystrophin in skeletal muscle. Neuromuscul Disord 2002 0.79
12 Cloned myogenic cells can transdifferentiate in vivo into neuron-like cells. PLoS One 2010 0.76
13 A deficit of brain dystrophin 71 impairs hypothalamic osmostat. J Neurosci Res 2010 0.76