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CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages 566-574Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2010.08.009
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- NIH [GM078318, GM056989]
- MDA
- Mary L. Ralph Fund
- ISF
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From the muscles that control the blink of your eye to those that allow you to walk, the basic architecture of muscle is the same: muscles consist of bundles of the unit muscle cell, the muscle fiber. The unique morphology of the individual muscle fiber is dictated by the functional demands necessary to generate and withstand the forces of contraction, which in turn leads to movement. Contractile muscle fibers are elongated, syncytial cells, which interact with both the nervous and skeletal systems to govern body motion. In this review, we focus on three key cell-cell and cell-matrix contact processes, that are necessary to create this exquisitely specialized cell: cell fusion, cell elongation, and establishment of a myotendinous junction. We address these processes by highlighting recent findings from the Drosophila model system.
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