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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 492075, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/492075
Research Article

Localization of Magic-F1 Transgene, Involved in Muscular Hypertrophy, during Early Myogenesis

Flavio Ronzoni,1,2 Matilde Bongio,1 Silvio Conte,1 Luigi Vercesi,1 Marco Cassano,3 Carla Tribioli,4 Daniela Galli,1,2 Riccardo Bellazzi,2 Giovanni Magenes,2 Maria Gabriella Cusella De Angelis,1,2 and Maurilio Sampaolesi1,2,3,5

1Human Anatomy Section, University of Pavia, Via Forlanini 8, 27100 Pavia, Italy
2Center for Tissue Engineering (CIT), University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
3Translational Cardiomyology (SCIL), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
4Institute of Molecular Genetics, CNR, 27100 Pavia, Italy
5Stem Cell Research Institute, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Received 31 May 2011; Revised 14 September 2011; Accepted 19 September 2011

Academic Editor: Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos

Copyright © 2011 Flavio Ronzoni et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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