Obscurin Depletion Impairs Organization of Skeletal Muscle in Developing Zebrafish Embryos
Figure 11
Obscurin depletion results in diminished alignment of myofibrils in adjacent myocytes. (a) At 48 hpf, myofibrils in adjacent myocytes are aligned (arrows) along a nearly identical axis of contraction. (b), (c) In obscurin morphant embryos, there is a loss of the precise parallel alignment (arrows) of myofibrils in adjacent myocytes. Scale bars are 50 μm.