Duchenne muscular dystrophy

D Duan, N Goemans, S Takeda, E Mercuri… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
skeletal muscle biopsy in the first year of life before symptom onset 66,67 . This finding is
explained by the discovery that dystrophin (specifically dystrophin … in exercising muscle, leading …

Duchenne muscular dystrophy–what causes the increased membrane permeability in skeletal muscle?

DG Allen, NP Whitehead - The international journal of biochemistry & cell …, 2011 - Elsevier
… We have recently shown in mdx skeletal muscle, as previously demonstrated in mdx cardiac
muscle (Williams and Allen, 2007) that NADPH oxidase is an important source of ROS (…

Gene expression comparison of biopsies from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and normal skeletal muscle

JN Haslett, D Sanoudou, AT Kho… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
… substantial changes in skeletal muscle pathology. Although … in muscular dystrophy, expression
microarrays were used to compare individual gene expression profiles of skeletal muscle

The Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene product is localized in sarcolemma of human skeletal muscle

EE Zubrzycka-Gaarn, DE Bulman, G Karpati… - Nature, 1988 - nature.com
… by Sugita et al“, subcellular muscle fractionation has suggested an intracellular localization
of dystrophin to triads in mouse and rabbit skeletal muscle". The results presented in this …

Gene expression profiling of Duchenne muscular dystrophy skeletal muscle

JN Haslett, D Sanoudou, AT Kho, M Han, RR Bennett… - Neurogenetics, 2003 - Springer
… The muscular dystrophies are a group of clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorders
… in skeletal muscle fibers. In Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most-common form of …

Nitric oxide synthase complexed with dystrophin and absent from skeletal muscle sarcolemma in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

JE Brenman, DS Chao, H Xia, K Aldape, DS Bredt - Cell, 1995 - cell.com
… Synthesis of NO in active muscle opposes contractile force. We … skeletal muscle membranes
owing to association of nNOS with dystrophin, the protein mutated in Duchenne muscular

Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying muscular dystrophy

F Rahimov, LM Kunkel - Journal of Cell Biology, 2013 - rupress.org
… The muscular dystrophies are a group of heterogeneous genetic diseases characterized …
of skeletal muscle. Since the discovery of the first muscular dystrophy gene encoding dystrophin

Evaluation of skeletal muscle DTI in patients with duchenne muscular dystrophy

MT Hooijmans, BM Damon, M Froeling… - NMR in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… has not been addressed experimentally in patients with a muscle disease. The overall
purpose of this study was to acquire skeletal muscle DTI measurements in patients with DMD and …

Fibre types in chicken skeletal muscles and their changes in muscular dystrophy

EA Barnard, JM Lyles, JA Pizzey - The Journal of Physiology, 1982 - Wiley Online Library
… in our examination of several other skeletal muscles, from both normal and … muscle fibre
types. We shall finally consider how muscular dystrophy affects the different classes of muscle

Absence of Dystrophin Disrupts Skeletal Muscle Signaling: Roles of Ca2+, Reactive Oxygen Species, and Nitric Oxide in the Development of Muscular Dystrophy

DG Allen, NP Whitehead… - Physiological …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
… deficiencies that lead to muscle degeneration in the muscular dystrophies. In this review,
we focus primarily on the DPC in skeletal muscle. Based largely on dystrophin's key role in …