[Compared to controls, patients with DD showed (1) increased thickness of the circular and longitudinal muscle layers, (2) architectural alterations of smooth muscle cells, (3) increased connective tissue index of the longitudinal muscle layer, (4) focally reduced density of myofilaments at ultrastructural level, (5) specific down-regulation of SMMHC mRNA levels, (6) decreased immunoreactivity of SMMHC, (7) oligo-neuronal hypoganglionosis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE