Nutritional intervention restores muscle but not kidney phenotypes in adult calcineurin Aα null mice.

Mice lacking the α isoform of the catalytic subunit of calcineurin (CnAα) were first reported in 1996 and have been an important model to understand the role of calcineurin in the brain, immune system, bones, muscle, and kidney. Research using the mice has been limited, however, by failure to thrive...

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Main Authors: Kirsten Madsen, Ramesh N Reddy, S Russ Price, Clintoria R Williams, Jennifer L Gooch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3640044?pdf=render