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- noun Plural form of
costamere .
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Examples
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The researchers needed to continue their studies in adult mice with fully formed muscle cells to observe them in action, because muscle cells in culture don't have properly functioning costameres.
Emaxhealth 2009
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The protective layer is located at a very particular place on the muscle cell membrane, where costameres, riblike structures, hold the bundled muscle cells together.
Emaxhealth 2009
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They found that the cells needed ankG to help dystrophin and beta-dystroglycan stay in place at the costameres.
Emaxhealth 2009
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