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For example, laminin-111 was shown to up‐regulate integrin expression in dystrophic skeletal muscle thereby stabilizing the sarcolemma and mitigating damage in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (a finding reported in."}, {"type": "fg", "children": [{"type": "fg_f", "ref": "1"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": " Similarly, a matrix metalloproteinase–generated fragment of laminin-111 modulates integrin signaling to drive early embryonic stem cell differentiation."}, {"type": "fg", "children": [{"type": "fg_f", "ref": "2"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": " Although none of these studies explicitly mention SMIM10L2B, by virtue of its classification as a small integral membrane protein, it is plausible that SMIM10L2B participates in similar pathways that couple extracellular matrix dynamics with cellular responses.\n"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": "\n\n"}, {"type": "p", "children": [{"type": "t", "text": "\nFurther research has detailed how laminin-integrin interactions orchestrate key events in nerve development and renal basement membrane assembly. 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