Record #:

26188

Author(s):

Horn, Dottie

Abstract:

Electric rays shock their prey using electric organs which contain proteins similar to those in human muscle. By studying electric ray proteins, physiologist Robert Sealock may learn why the human disease muscular dystrophy causes muscle cells to die.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 10 Issue 1, Fall 1992, p14-15, il, por

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Research